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



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Autore: Gambarota Paola Visualizza persona
Titolo: Irresistible signs : the genius of language and Italian national identity / / Paola Gambarota Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
Disciplina: 850.9/358
Soggetto topico: National characteristics, Italian, in literature
Italian literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
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."--Pub. desc.
Titolo autorizzato: Irresistible signs  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4426-9526-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790297603321
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Serie: Toronto Italian studies series.