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Donne in rete
Una selezione di saggi, già stampati nelle pubblicazioni ufficiali della rete Athena, per mettere a fuoco aspetti diversi della ricerca di genere in Europa nelle Università e nei centri di ricerca: attraverso la centralità del punto di vista di genere si fondono il nuovo sapere e gli studi delle donne. La rete tematica Socrates, dell’Unione Europea, è attiva dal 1998 e mette insieme oggi oltre 100 istituzioni europee di ricerca e didattica dentro e fuori l’Università. Scopo della rete è favorire scambi e attività unitarie che portino ad una stabile cooperazione. L’attualità della prospettiva di genere è sottolineata da alcuni scritti teorici, che pongono le fondamenta dei conc...
A Companion to Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) was the genre-defining secular woman writer of Renaissance Italy, whose literary model helped to establish a decorous and wholly assimilated voice for women within the field of Italian literature. The Companion to Vittoria Colonna brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to assess Colonna’s contribution, both as a writer, a role model, and a contributor to important religious debates of the era. This book, while amply fulfilling the remit of providing a useful and comprehensive handbook to meet the needs of students and scholars at earlier and advanced levels, aims in addition to do more than this, by drawing into a single volume for the first time scholarship from across disciplines in which Vittoria Colonna’s influence has been felt, including literary criticism, religious history, history of art and music. Contributors are: Abigail Brundin, Stephen Bowd, Emidio Campi, Eleonora Carinci, Adriana Chemello, Virginia Cox, Tatiana Crivelli, Maria Forcellino, Gaudenz Freuler, Anne Piéjus, Diana Robin, Helena Sanson, and Maria Serena Sapegno.
L’atto sospeso
Che cosa accade in una narrazione quando l’eroe – creatura d’azione per eccellenza – si ferma e non agisce? Pensiamo ad Achille che si ritira nella sua tenda, rifiutandosi di combattere, o a Oreste che esita prima di uccidere Clitemnestra. O ancora a Perceval e Lancelot, campioni di gesta straordinarie, e insieme chevaliers pensifs, sovente catturati da pensieri e malinconie d’amore. Questo libro s’interroga sulle fratture e i frattempi in cui gli eroi non corrispondono al proprio paradigma, e abitano il territorio del “non fare” come spazio fecondo per sé stessi e per l’opera di cui fanno parte. Esitanti e temporaneamente inefficaci, questi “eroi in sospeso” attraversano la tradizione letteraria europea, da Omero a Virginia Woolf, che nel Novecento riscrive le sorti di Orlando e Perceval, eroi contemporanei dell’inazione, e insieme figure della creatività e della poesia.
Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian
This book analyses gendered language in Italian, shedding light on how the Italian language constructs and reproduces the social imbalance between women and men, and presenting indirect and direct instances of asymmetrical constructions of gender in public and private roles. The author examines linguistic treatments of women in politics and the media, as well as the gendered crime of femminicidio, i.e. the killing of women by their (former) partners. Through the combination of corpus linguistics, surveys, and discourse analysis, she establishes a new approach to the study of gendered Italian, a framework which can be applied to other languages and epistemological sites. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language and gender, discourse analysis, Italian and other Romance languages.
Representations of Female Identity in Italy
This volume explores a variety of iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. The contributors here apply various methodologies to characterize the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities, drawing from literature, film, drama, history, the humanities, media and cultural studies. Cross-genre, cross-cultural, and cross-national explorations are also utilised here in order to underline the multifaceted ways in which de facto female characterization occurred.
Thinking Differently
This book is the first to ask whether there is a specifically European dimension to certain major issues in Women's Studies. It strives to create a synergetic debate among different disciplines and cultural traditions in Europe, and, in doing so, fills some gaps in our knowledge about women and enriches debates hitherto dominated by Anglo-American influences. Among the new areas of enquiry opened up in this book by the specificities of European Women's Studies are: * The fact that Europe has repeatedly experienced warfare on its own territory which has impacted significantly on women. Hence the focus in this volume on women and militarism, and on ethnic cleansing as an attack on the family. ...
Queer Italy
Queer Italy is the first multi-methodological inquiry into the historical, political and representational contexts behind the current plea for civil unions that queers advocate in Italy. Concerned with the links between identity, subjectivity and sexuality in Italy, this book opens Italian studies to previously neglected discussion of queer and migrant subjectivities. The author applies Lacanian film analysis and auto-ethnographic passages to question the uses of queer politics in Italy. Accessible and comprehensive, this is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses on Italian culture, cultural studies and film studies.
Michelangelo's Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform
In this volume, Emily A. Fenichel offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo's sculpture and graphic works in his late period. Taking the criticism of the Last Judgment as its point of departure, she argues that much of Michelangelo's late oeuvre was engaged in solving the religious and artistic problems presented by the Counter-Reformation. Buffeted by critiques of the Last Judgment, which claimed that he valued art over religion, Michelangelo searched for new religious iconographies and techniques both publicly and privately. Fenichel here suggests a new and different understanding of the artist in his late career. In contrast to the received view of Michelangelo as solitary, intractable, and temperamental, she brings a more nuanced characterization of the artist. The late Michelangelo, Fenichel demonstrates, was a man interested in collaboration, penance, meditation, and experimentation, which enabled his transformation into a new type of religious artist for a new era.
