Irresistible signs : the genius of language and Italian national identity /

"Language is now understood as a key component of cultural identity, but discourses on linguistic nationalism are only a few centuries old. In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the connection between Italian language and national identity over four hundred years, from late-Renais...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gambarota, Paola
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Italian, in literature.
Italian literature > History and criticism.
Littérature italienne > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Italian literature
National characteristics, Italian, in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Scripts of vernaculars and collective characters in early modern Europe
  • 2. Ut lingua, natio: Dominique Bouhours' genius of the nation and Ludovico Antonio Muratori's Italian republic of letters
  • 3. Giambattista Vico, the vernacular, and the foundations of modern Italy
  • 4. Translating genius: Cesarotti, Ossian, and the question of national character
  • 5. Toward sameness: Leopardi's critique of character and the end of the nation
  • 6. Irresistible signs? A postscript and the question of media.

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