LEADER 03671nam 2200661 450 001 9910461764703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9526-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442695269 035 $a(CKB)2670000000182718 035 $a(OCoLC)785803013 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541231 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000623037 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11389592 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623037 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10659448 035 $a(PQKB)10645154 035 $a(CEL)436462 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00228449 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3279067 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672829 035 $a(DE-B1597)479132 035 $a(OCoLC)987953588 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442695269 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672829 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258482 035 $a(OCoLC)958565672 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000182718 100 $a20160914h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIrresistible signs $ethe genius of language and Italian national identity /$fPaola Gambarota 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian Studies 311 $a1-4426-4298-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1 Scripts of Vernaculars and Collective Characters in Early Modern Europe -- $t2 Ut Lingua, Natio: Dominique Bouhours's Genius of the Nation and Ludovico Antonio Muratori's Italian Republic of Letters -- $t3 Giambattista Vico, the Vernacular, and the Foundations of Modern Italy -- $t4 Translating Genius: Cesarotti, Ossian, and the Question of National Character -- $t5 Towards Sameness: Leopardi's Critique of Character, and the End of the Nation -- $tIrresistible Signs? A Postscript and the Question of Media -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aLanguage is now understood as a key component of cultural identity, but discourses on linguistic nationalism are only a few centuries old. In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the connection between Italian language and national identity over four hundred years, from late-Renaissance linguistic theories to nineteenth-century nationalist myths.Challenging the consensus that linguistic nationalism originated with nineteenth century German philosophers, Irresistible Signs advances a more nuanced theory of how culture and language become inextricably linked through literary and rhetorical elements. Gambarota combines Anglo-American theories of the nation with the most advanced Italian scholarship on language ideology and delves into ideas from Giambattista Vico, Giacomo Leopardi, and Melchiorre Cesarotti. Irresistible Signs also explores how images of national communities are represented within vernaculars, affirming their influence in shaping contemporary models of monolingual nationhood. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies series. 606 $aNational characteristics, Italian, in literature 606 $aItalian literature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Italian, in literature. 615 0$aItalian literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a850.9/358 700 $aGambarota$b Paola$0960497 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461764703321 996 $aIrresistible signs$92177401 997 $aUNINA