https://mla.hcommons.org/members/laurencehooper/activity/ Activity feed for Laurence Hooper. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 18828bc12451d2ad243fc026e1282f97 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604659/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:07:08 -0400 This special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]

]]> 0 07dcaf0440d7787dd185260cbee87205 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604658/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:05:54 -0400 This special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]

]]> 0 07dcaf0440d7787dd185260cbee87205 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604657/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:05:54 -0400 This special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]

]]> 0 9366dfcce1b3c552a4f9652ad4a22b9d https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604656/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:02:35 -0400 This special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]

]]> 0 046199a74526eb8e300fe1e257466ea6 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604655/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:59:57 -0400 This special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]

]]> 0 e19bde7dc27696fe75719d9c39ffcd74 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604634/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:38:39 -0400 This article considers the characterization of blessed souls in Dante’s Commedia (1307–21) and Petrarch’s Canzoniere (c. 1356–74) and Triumphi (c. 1352–74). It argues that eschatological realism – the detailed representation of souls in the afterlife – lies at the heart of these three works, each of which depicts a deceased beloved who now resid…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e9490f2328ad05c833c454f67fc57f8 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604572/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:27:29 -0400 This special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e8f1a7fdfc71455e46a4e3d3a42ace8 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1561619/ Wed, 08 Feb 2017 02:11:31 -0500 This article demonstrates a systematic connection between the novelty of Petrarch’s authorship and his self-definition as an exile. Petrarch employs the unusual term exilium/esilio to substantiate his unprecedented claim that literature is a legally valid officium (civic role). Following Dante, Petrarch grounds his exilic authorship in the C…[Read more]

]]> 0 4eb147ad3007ab03d77ff68bb73fea72 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1561511/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:34:18 -0500 Concentrates on the brief period of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s career between 1966 and 1969 when he dedicated a significant portion of his energy to the theater. Argues that these years contain Pasolini’s most direct engagement with bourgeois Italian culture: he largely drops his use of dialect in favor of Standard Italian, he sets his plays in mod…[Read more]

]]> 0 df1830e554965867594a43e2874b0b84 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1561507/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:23:12 -0500 This article challenges the established reading of Atti impuri and Amado mio, Pasolini’s early unfinished novels about young homosexual love, as diaristic. Previous accounts of the Friulan novels have largely ignored the fact that their final redactions were drawn up in Rome, where the author had fled from Friuli in January 1950 in the wake of a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d4d66b5c6a10bca8cee52f330789937 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1561485/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 02:42:36 -0500 The essay examines closely the many and varied metaphors of Convivio 1 in relation to its “content.” This approach contrasts with most prior work on the Convivio, which views it as a philosophical work, and pays little attention its form or rhetoric. Instead, the article shows that the Convivio draws on a variety of disciplines in orer to…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7a801168274a8cb28c2a2774fdc516 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1561484/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 02:31:39 -0500 This article identifies the Augustinian motive of peregrinatio (pilgrimage/exile) as fundamental to the Vita nova, both thematically and at the level of narrative structure. Although Dante himself would not experience banishment from Florence in 1302, this early work establishes him as a vernacular poet whose authority stems from a marginal and…[Read more]

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