1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461764703321

Autore

Gambarota Paola

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-9526-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

850.9/358

Soggetti

National characteristics, Italian, in literature

Italian literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Scripts of Vernaculars and Collective Characters in Early Modern Europe -- 2 Ut Lingua, Natio: Dominique Bouhours's 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 Towards Sameness: Leopardi's Critique of Character, and the End of the Nation -- Irresistible Signs? A Postscript and the Question of Media -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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-Renaissance linguistic theories to nineteenth-century nationalist myths.Challenging the consensus that linguistic nationalism originated with nineteenth century German philosophers, Irresistible Signs advances a more nuanced theory of how culture and language become inextricably linked through literary and rhetorical elements. Gambarota combines Anglo-American theories of the nation with the most advanced Italian scholarship on language ideology and delves into



ideas from Giambattista Vico, Giacomo Leopardi, and Melchiorre Cesarotti. Irresistible Signs also explores how images of national communities are represented within vernaculars, affirming their influence in shaping contemporary models of monolingual nationhood.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910326054303321

Autore

Frappi Carlo

Titolo

Cooperation in Eurasia / Carlo Frappi, Gulshan Pashayeva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ledizioni, 2018

Milan : , : Ledizioni, , 2018

ISBN

9788867057580

8867057588

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (192 p.)

Collana

Pubblicazioni ISPI

Disciplina

333.7095

Soggetti

Economic development - Eurasia

Economic development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Result of a joint research project conducted by the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SAM), the volume "Cooperation in Eurasia: Linking Identity, Security, and Development" aims to shed light on the drivers and on the rationale behind regional cooperation in Eurasia. In particular it investigates and ponder the weight of identity issues, security perceptions, and economic development needs for interstate cooperation in the Eurasian context, by taking into account both supra-national frameworks and regional scenarios. Accordingly, the book is divided in two parts, focusing respectively on "Cooperation and Competition at Multilateral Level" and on "Regional Case Studies".