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Suffragism and italianità : political and literary discourses of women's citizenship in Italy, 1900-1923
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2014)
The present research sets out to trace distinctive patterns of language use around the issue of women’s suffrage in early-twentieth-century Liberal Italy. In particular, the question of how women’s identities were constructed ...
Umberto Eco and Rabelaisian grotesque : Bakhtinian echoes and sociopolitical criticism in the fictional works of Umberto Eco
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2013)
Despite the fact that Eco is a world-renowned public intellectual with an evident desire to
contribute to the changes of contemporary Italian society, scholarly literature has given
little attention to the sociopolitical ...
Embodied words upon the stage : W.B. Yeats, translation and theatre-making
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2015)
This thesis starts out with an analysis of Yeats's reception in Italy over a century, which shows how his dramatic production was relegated to a position of lesser importance, whereas his reputation as a poet gradually ...