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  ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Italian art experienced a revival in the 18th century, particularly in the latter half with the spread of the Enlightenment.
Italian culture and literature experienced a revival in the second half of the 18th century as a result of the spread of the ideals of the Enlightenment.
Italian writers felt the need for contact with the rest of European culture and were convinced that this was the only way Italy could play any role in the progress of civilization.
www.crs4.it /Letteratura/Misc/Storia.html   (5711 words)

  
 Welcome to IAWA - Italian American Writers Association
When Italian American readers are fully conversant their literature and history, they will find writers to examine it from the inside.
Italian Americans will have leaders of thought and opinion to speak to the point, intellectuals who can place it in the context of other issues, poets and novelists who can give the most intimate portrait of what it means to live in a given position.
To name someone an Italian American writer will be to confer an honor and to share a powerful American freedom, the freedom to express one’s position as fully, as clearly, as widely as it is possible to do.
www.iawa.net /rules_2.shtml   (978 words)

  
 Carmen Covito Web - Integrated Italian
On a linguistic level, lettered writers are poles apart from the new novelists and the novissimi-novi, who instead, unlike the lettered writers, have not only seen the Madonna of the standard national language but are intimate with her and live happily with her.
There are also some younger writers like Nove, Ammaniti, and Brizzi, whose stylistic use of the spoken language is a conscious choice coherent with their themes, almost always based on juvenile motifs and written with the structural rhythms often associated with rock music or TV channel surfing.
Surely if the writer has it in mind to write a contemporary novel (one not meant to be historical or antiquarian or commercial), that writer must portray different sociocultural environments, characters of different provenance, personality, and linguistic competence, high, middle, middle-low, and low usage of language, and maybe even more than one narrating voice.
www.carmencovito.com /en/italiano0.html   (2863 words)

  
 intemperanti
In her discussion of the critical debate surrounding the new Italian narrative, Bernadi confirms that the new phenomenon that characterized the Italian literary scene of the Nineties was the rise of the “young writers”, that is, authors born in the Sixties and Seventies.
Though new writers were not considered a sound commercial investment (traditionally, and in the 1970s in particular, major publishers tended to support established authors, and translations of works from other countries were offered to meet the growing demand for new fiction), smaller publishers were more willing to take a chance on unknown authors.
This new generation of under-30 writers (all born between 1974 and 1978) have no connection with the earlier cannibali; although the young writers embody a certain degree of youthful immoderation, differences are perceptible.
home.att.net /~amappel/intemperanti.htm   (7482 words)

  
 Welcome to Italy1 Literature page of 19 and 20 Centuries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Foremost among the last-named group of writers is Alessandro Manzoni, the author of the famous 19th-century masterpiece of Italian romantic fiction I promessi sposi (1825-27; The Betrothed, 1834).
Several writers may be grouped together as representative of the modes of thought of those who bridged the gap between the 19th and 20th centuries.
Besides Pirandello, the best-known modern Italian writer, especially in the U.S., was Alberto Moravia, a prolific author notable for his novels and short stories of contemporary human situations.
italy1.com /literature/19_20_centuries.php   (3554 words)

  
 AICW : The Association of Italian Canadian Writers
Anna writes in Italian and English and her short stories and interviews with authors were published in Canada, Italy, the USA and Australia.
She is a co-founder of the Literary Prize F.G.Bressani of the Italian Cultural Centre in Vancouver, and organized the first and seventh National Conference of Italian Canadian Writers and since 2000 is the President of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers.
Italian born, Isabella Colalillo Katz is a poet, writer, editor, holistic educator, translator and storyteller based in Toronto.
www.aicw.ca /membership2.htm   (2585 words)

  
 il Congresso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
These ethnic writers are producing a literature that emerges directly from the creative instinct to capture feelings, memories and difficult migration experiences on paper.
In Toronto an early writer is Francesco Gualtieri who brought out a brief ethnic history, We Italians: A Study of Italian Immigration in Canada (1928), and some collections of poems in English: Songs of Solitude (1920), The Swing of the Soul (1923), Harbors (1924), The Sonnets of Triumph (1925).
The strength of Italian writing and publishing in Canada is demonstrated not only by the appearance of newspapers in Italian but also by the continued printing of books.
www.albertasource.ca /abitalian/illcongresso/articles/ilcongresso88b.htm   (1620 words)

  
 Mary Jo Bona
Italian Americans of second and third generations also continue to be fascinated by this image, incorporating, nego­tiating, and interrogating the figure of the pining mother in poetry and in fictional narratives.
Writers from the third generation continue to concern them­selves with the fate of the Italian family in America, though their narratives at times depict an attenuated family status and communities in dispersal.
As a result, these writers are invoking the role in order to move beyond the traditional narrative of sorrowful mother and crucified son, though all the writers discussed in this essay are decidedly indebted to this image.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /modlang/carasi/via/ViaVol7_2Bona.htm   (6254 words)

  
 Levi, Primo --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Italian literature, and indeed standard Italian, have their origins in the 14th century Tuscan dialect, the language of its three founding fathers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
The Italian writer and chemist Primo Levi is noted for his restrained and moving autobiographical account of and reflections on survival in the Nazi concentration camps.
Italian boxer Primo Carnera was born in Sequals.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9047975&ref=news0505ARC   (672 words)

  
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However, hindered by his lack of familiarity with the vast body of literature created by American writers of Italian descent, Talese reduced the experience of Italian-American writers to his own, and offered a number of explanations which sound plausible, but which, in reality, do not reflect my belief that you are what you read.
From the earliest contributions found in Italian language newspapers to the first appearances of Italian-American writers in mainstream American publications, the poetry and prose produced by American writers of Italian descent has been viewed as singular achievements by anomalies.
I learned that the first Italian-American writers were immigrants who learned English and responded to their experience in America through poetry and prose more often than not found in the early Italian language newspapers.
www.italianstudies.org /iam/essay.htm   (3495 words)

  
 Description of serie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Dante Alighieri Society has as its aim the promotion and diffusion of the Italian language and culture throughout the world and since its foundation in Rome in 1889 has established itself in most countries and major cities.
The 15th century was of very great importance because it was the century in which a new vision of human life, embracing a different conception of man and life as well as more modern principles of ethics and politics, gradually found its expression.
The 19th century was a period of political ferment in Italy, and many outstanding writers were involved in public affairs.
www.hist.uib.no /antikk/stamps/serie44.htm   (326 words)

  
 Elsa Morante
Italian novelist, short-story writer and poet, whose most famous work, LA STORIA (1974), was called at the time of its publication the novel of the century.
Morante's marriage with the writer Alberto Moravia brought her into contact with the leading Italian writers and intellectuals of the day.
He was attracted to her by her personality and he also realized that she was a born writer, as though descended from some cantastorie, a wandering story-teller and ballad singer.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /emorante.htm   (1151 words)

  
 Women writers (from Italian literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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Moreover, it was predominantly practical in nature and produced by writers trained in ecclesiastical schools.
It was then that writers began to abandon Latin as the language of literature and write in one of the Italian dialects used in common speech.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=215789   (911 words)

  
 Italian American Writers
Accomplishments: Venera Di Bella Barles is a writer living on Bainbridge Island, Washington and an active member of the writing community.
The child of Italian immigrants, Antonia Sparano Geiser learned to appreciate her family's traditions and cultural heritage together with their reverence for education, great food, and great operatic music.
Born in 1920, Maria was raised in the small Italian town of San Nicola La Strada, in the Campania Region, twenty miles north of Naples.
www.italiamerica.org /id74.htm   (865 words)

  
 MELUS: Beyond the Godfather: Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience
She taught me to sing Italian operas and Italian lullabies, and she made sure I knew when the saints I learned about at school, Francesca Cabrini, John Bosco, Dominic Savio, not to mention my patron saint, Francis of Assisi, were not just Catholic but also Italian.
A few essays sound forced, as if the writers had never considered their ethnicity important until it offered them the opportunity to write for this collection.
Anthony Tamburri's "Rethinking the Italian/American Writer" begins with thought-provoking analysis of the critical response to Italian-American literature and moves to an excellent discussion of Tony Ardizzone's fiction.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_24/ai_62350916   (1090 words)

  
 AICW : The Association of Italian Canadian Writers
The Association of Italian Canadian Writers brings together a community of writers, critics, academics, and other artists who promote Italian Canadian literature and culture.
The AICW's mission is to support and encourage the expression and dissemination of the Italian Canadian experience and to implement an educative process for the valorization and understanding of heritage within an ethnoculturally diversified society.
The AICW was founded in Vancouver in 1986 during the first-ever conference on Italian Canadian literature.
www.aicw.ca   (83 words)

  
 Italian Women Writers 235
Italian women were fighting for suffrage alongside their American and Swedish counterparts, even though they received the vote much later.
Italian Studies majors and minors may request to do some or most of the readings and papers in Italian.
These papers are not intended to be plot summaries, nor are they intended merely to be vehicles to express simple opinions of the story or the characters.
www.wheatonma.edu /Academic/AcademicDept/ItalianStudies/syllabi/ItWomen.html   (572 words)

  
 Mary Jo Bona
For the nineteenth-century writers such as Hawthorne and James, Italy provided a past and a history they felt was sorely lacking in young America.
The return to Italy has become thematically relevant, especially for third- and fourth-generation Italian Americans, and it provides those of us dedi­cated to analyzing our literature the means by which to compare visions of Italy from the early to the latter part of the twentieth century.
Returning from Castellana Grotte a “born-again Italian,” Gardaphé nonetheless still felt like a divided self, a phe­nomenon experienced by ethnic writers in general, who are often torn between their inherited culture and mainstream America.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /modlang/carasi/via/ViaVol7_1Bona.htm   (1024 words)

  
 The veristi and other narrative writers (from Italian literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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Writers' Union of the U.S.S.R. organization formed in 1932 by a decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that abolished existing literary organizations and absorbed all professional Soviet writers into one large union.
As African nations began to emerge from centuries of colonial rule, writers reflected on the imposition of Western values on the African people and examined the new conflicts that accompanied independence.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=12582   (978 words)

  
 IAWA - Italian American Writers Association
First, Italian American is a retelling of the Faust legend, wherein Italian Americans sell themselves into moral slavery in return for the price of a decent job and the right to call themselves white people.
The Italian disillusion and the American disillusion were comparable, but most Italian immigrants judged that the disillusion was worse back in Italy.
In the U.S.A., as long as Italian Americans went along with their own subjugation and silencing, they were allowed to enjoy many of the privileges of white people.
webpunkt.com /iawa   (1693 words)

  
 Dana Gioia Online - Italian-American Poetry
Although Italian-American poetry began in 1805 with the arrival of Mozart's librettist, the Venetian writer Lorenzo da Ponte, it took another century and a half for enough significant authors to appear to claim the attention of the English-speaking public.
In Italian culture one often notices two conflicting impulses—one to preserve the richness of the past, the other to reject it in search of the new.
The brightest young Italian-American writers and critics gravitate to the mainstream academic and intellectual culture.
www.danagioia.net /essays/eitalamer.htm   (2950 words)

  
 La Vita Italo-Americana is an Italian Blog for Italophiles
The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) in collaboration with the Cornelia Street Café will be having a special night of four featured Canadian Italian Writers on Saturday, May 14th, 2005 at 5:45pm to 7:45pm.
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC and dedicated to preserving the heritage of Italian Americans.
This Notice is to inform all Italian American Organizations that on February 8, 2005 at 12:00 Noon on the steps of City Hall the twelve members of the NYC Council Italian American Caucus and the Italian American Political Action Committee (I AM PAC) will join together to Boycott the DVD of Sharks Tale.
italomedia.blogspot.com   (2626 words)

  
 Association Italian Canadian Writers
The Association's main purpose is to publicize the work of Italian Canadian authors, and to provide a forum for the discussion of issues pertinent and relevant to the membership.
The 1996 meeting in Toronto was particularly exciting because it was intended to establish a dialogue with similarly situated writers in the Canadian context, that means ethnic/minority writers.
Born in the Friuli in 1896, Modotti emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1913.
members.tripod.com /~verdicchio/ItalianCanadian.html   (2004 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Italian American Writers on New Jersey: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
I have just finished reading Italian American Writers on New Jersey, an amazing collection of works--works previously almost entirely unknown to me, yet in their themes as familiar to me as my own face.
The anthology teems with people and places from the past and present; people and places that, despite their imperfections, I remember and revere; people and places who have never before, I think, been given such broad and fair-minded treatment.
For many years I've heard that in professional publishing circles Italian-themed works are discouraged because "Italians don't read." Thank you to the three editors, and to Rutgers University Press, for proving that Italians certainly can write.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0813533171   (323 words)

  
 Humbul full record view for -- Italian women writers
The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) preserves and provides access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors.
It brings together information on and texts by both famous and less well-known Italian women writers from the late 12th century to writers born in 1945.
This excellent archive will be of great value to students, teachers and researchers interested in Italian women writers, providing easy access to a vast number of texts and detailed information about the writers themselves.
www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=11372   (271 words)

  
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That is, why has there been little effort by descendants of l'avventura to stampede writers and publishers to produce a full exploration of "how deeply World War II drove Italian American culture into hiding" Tonelli, p.
A novel, "I Promessi Sposi," that is regarded as the turning point in writing "verismo" was written by a most celebrated Italian writer...
I would find it useful to have well founded discussion of well known writers who share an Italian-American background and also share, with John Ciardi, a sincere and vehement desire to avoid being labeled as "Italian-American" writers.
www.italystl.com /ra/943.htm   (808 words)

  
 Candida Martinelli's Italophile Site (Italian Books+Dante)
A well-bred Italian woman explained to me once that Italians were horrified when Encyclopedia Britannica came out with their first version in Italian.
If you want to read up on Italian literature, click here or on the librarian with the book cart, to the right, to access the Voice of the Shuttle site that can link you to classics in Italian or their English translations.
When I asked Italian friends where I could find the nearest lending library, they first asked what I was talking about, and then laughed at my ignorance of the Italian character.
italophiles.com /books_italian_literature.htm   (1327 words)

  
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