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Literature of Indistinction: Blanchot and Caproni
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The Threshold and the Topos of the Remnant: Giorgio Agamben
(Taylor & Francis, 2008-04)In this article I will follow Agamben as he conceptualises the space of the threshold. The next section will be devoted to investigating Agamben's reading of Paul, with particular attention to hope and love. I will show ... -
Triumphant failure: the return of the Irish Papal Brigade
(Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 2009)In early 1860, Italian unification was gaining momentum and Pope Pius IX, the temporal ruler of large parts of central Italy, feared an invasion of his extensive territories by the troops of Victor Emanuel of Piedmont ... -
Renunciation: Heidegger, Agamben, Blanchot, Vattimo
(Edinburgh University Press, 2009-02)In the essay Das Wort (Words) in On the Way to Language, Martin Heidegger speaks of 'renunciation' (Verzicht) as the necessary route towards experiencing that which remains otherwise invisible and unsayable. Heidegger ... -
Blanchot and ambiguity
(Purdue University Press, 2010-09)In his article "Blanchot and Ambiguity" Paolo Bartoloni investigates the enigmatic and ambiguous turn of the famous Blanchotian statement "existence without Being." The intention of the article is to locate Blanchot's ... -
That dangerous serpent: Garibaldi and Ireland 1860 - 1870
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010-09-28)This article analyses the reaction to Garibaldi in Ireland during the Risorgimento, a reaction which, in its negativity, generally contrasted with the Italian's heroic depiction elsewhere. Attitudes towards Garibaldi ... -
Beyond the four walls: community based learning and languages
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-09-20)At a time when languages in universities are under pressure, community-based learning language courses can have many positive benefits: they can increase interest in language learning, they can foster greater engagement ... -
Dante Alighieri from absence to stony presence: building memories in nineteenth-century Florence
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-12)The Dante narrative is one of the key narratives of nineteenth-century Italy in the self-fashioning of Italian patriotism. This article looks at the momentum behind the project to commemorate Dante in Florence in the early ... -
The Italian Risorgimento and the Irish Papal Brigade
(University College Dublin Press, 2013-12-03)In 1847, with the news of Daniel O’Connell’s death in Genoa, Italians responded with an outpouring of tributes to the Irishman. Hailed for his leadership qualities, Italians sympathised with the Irish over the loss of ... -
Translating the Vatican: Paul Cullen, power and language in nineteenth-century Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-29)This paper examines how one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century Ireland, Cardinal Paul Cullen, used language and translation to further his career and his vision for the Catholic Church in this period. ... -
Italian Transcultural Atmospheres. A Comparison of the Italian Forum in Sydney and Piazza Vittorio in Rome
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)This article is part of a larger study of Italian commercial and urban spaces developed around the world over the past fifteen years. It focuses in particular on the Italian Forum, a residential and commercial development ... -
War, virtue and mobilization in the Risorgimento: Massimo d’Azeglio’s Niccolò de’ Lapi
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An Italian inferno in Ireland: Alessandro Gavazzi and religious debate in the nineteenth century
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)Alessandro Gavazzi (1809-1889), the ‘warrior-priest’1 is a well-known figure in the history of the Risorgimento, famed for his patriotic oratory, his tireless support of the Italian nationalist cause, and – after Pope ... -
Letters to Italy: translation and religion in nineteenth-century Ireland
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)The analysis of translation activity in particular societies and contexts can often focus on published texts and literary works. In nineteenth-century Ireland, such an approach would only capture a proportion of translation ... -
The languages of transnationalism: translation, training, and transfer
(Irish American Cultural Institute, 2016-02-01)In the flows and connections that are central to transnational studies, language is a conduit that facilitates transfers; it allows for the movement of ideas and people across national and linguistic boundaries. In the ... -
A voyage into Catholicism: Irish travel to Italy in the nineteenth century
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-19)The analysis of travel writing and Italy has often focused on the beauty, the history and the heritage of the country; this essay argues that religion was a key element in depictions of the country and that this was ... -
Language and migration in Ireland
(Immigrant Council of Ireland, 2017)This report looks at the linguistic landscape in Ireland in 2017, using the words of migrants to describe their experiences in a changing and multilingual context. According to the 2016 Census, 612,018 people in Ireland ... -
Travel literature and traveling Irishness: An Italian case study
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)This chapter looks at the important societal, cultural, and historical issues relating to Irish travel to Europe in the nineteenth century. Using the case study of Julia Kavanagh’s travel book on Italy, A Summer and Winter ... -
Historicized fiction or fictionalized history?: Lia Levi's Cecilia va alla guerra and the legacy of the First World War in contemporary Italian children's literature
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017-04)Historical fiction has always been a popular genre in international children's literature, and recent decades have seen a notable increase in the number of novels for children set during the First World War. Providing ...