http://hdl.handle.net/2067/7 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:56:58 GMT 2013-06-18T20:56:58Z http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2335 Title: In the Right Place at the Right Time: George Perkins Marsh in Italy, 1861 – 1882 Authors: Vallino, Fabienne Charlotte Oräzie Abstract: This is an essay divided into two parts. PART ONE is intended for European readers, chiefly Italian and is the completion of PART TWO, the essay intended for American readers and prepared, in April 2012, for the Conference at Stevens Institute of Technology (Castle Point on Hudson, USA) titled 'George Perkins Marsh: An American for All Seasons'. Deposited in the SIAE Copyright Office (Italian Society of Authors, Editors and Publishers: Dep. number 2012004334 - 2012); Copyright registration with the U.S. Copyright Office, Washington (2012) From Vermont to Italy. On the day of 23rd July 2012 is the hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the death of George Perkins Marsh (Woodstock March 15, 1801 – Vallombrosa July 23, 1882). In this Essay the attention will be concentrated particularly on George P. Marsh and Italy, where his masterpiece ‘Man and Nature’ was written and then also translated in Italian from the first American edition. George P. Marsh, of Vermont, well-known in the world today as one of the pioneers, better yet, for many scholars the founder of Conservationist conception of environmentalism, and thus an essential catalyst for the Conservation movement, is not always sufficiently renowned for being a great personage in the History of Geographical Thought, and an excellent scholar in a long line of disciplines, most notably linguistic and philological, as well as for being a statesman and an adroit and influential diplomat. The last remark in particular might seem groundless as it particularly concerns Italy where he in fact lived from June 1861, until his death in 1882, in the role of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in the Kingdom of Italy. It is true that in 2011 he was sometimes remembered on the occasion of the Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary the Italian Unification, but it fact the memory of him has considerably diminished in Italy in the course of the 20th Century. On the contrary, during is Office in Italy and at the time of his decease he was of great political and cultural importance and had a following in the newborn unified Italian State. Although American and Anglo-Saxon Geography of the second half of the 20th Century started to renew its own interest in the teachings of George Perkins Marsh and to delve into his cultural legacy, in Italy he remained in the shadows and was hardly noticed in Europe. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2335 2013-01-15T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2327 Title: L’arte di ri-scrivere la Scozia: Kevin MacNeil Authors: Mariani, Martina Description: Tesi di Laurea di II Livello in Letteratura Inglese. Corso di laurea in Lingue per la comunicazione internazionale. Relatore: Prof.ssa Francesca Saggini. Correlatore: Prof. Valerio Viviani. Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2327 2012-09-21T22:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2325 Title: Jane Austen e il cibo: contesto e significazione in Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, ed Emma. Authors: Comodini, Elisa Abstract: The main purpose of this work is to investigate references to meals, food and drink in Jane Austen's novels, and analyze how these references contribute to illustrate characters, assign moral worth, and reveal moral values. Specifically, this dissertation will center on the novels where eating and drinking are of paramount importance: Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Readers are often solely focused on what happens around the table - lively dialogue, plot development - to recognize that what happens on the table is important too, and that food itself, its consumption and circulation, use, abuse and refusal, may convey a great deal of information. These considerations seem to be confirmed by the large number of references to food and drinks collected during the analysis of the above-mentioned novels: 295 reference to food and drink and 204 references to meals. Obviously, these references are too numerous to be merely coincidental. The analysis of Austen's treatment of food demonstrates indeed how references to meals, food and drink help understand better characters, determine their social status, clarify the time of the action. They provide crucial insights into morality and behaviour, as well. Food and drink, therefore, are not only a source of nourishment and bodily welfare but are also imbued with additional meaning and cultural significance that ensure a more comprehensive and critical reading of texts. For this reason I have explored Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Emma with a food-oriented approach and I have dedicated a whole chapter to the analysis of each novel. After having created an analytical index of meals, food and drinks per novel, and provided a narrative context for each reference, I have tried to understand and explain the function of food within each novel. I have divided the functions assigned to food and drink in Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Emma into three categories, which I name: Food and the Self, Food and Us, and Food and the "Other". Description: Tesi di Laurea di II Livello in Letteratura Inglese. Corso di laurea in Lingue per la comunicazione internazionale. Relatore: Prof.ssa Francesca Saggini. Correlatore: Prof. Valerio Viviani. Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2325 2012-09-15T22:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2324 Title: La recente storiografia italiana attraverso le riviste. L'età contemporanea Authors: Rapone, Leonardo Abstract: Il testo deriva da una relazione presentata ad un seminario organizzato da «Studi storici» e dalla Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, tenutosi a Roma nel giugno 2011. Superato il traguardo del mezzo secolo di attività, «Studi storici» ha voluto riflettere sulla propria esperienza, inquadrandola in una riflessione a più ampio raggio sul complesso delle riviste storiche italiane; ha voluto così anche fornire un contributo di analisi alla discussione attualmente in corso, non solo in Italia, sulla valutazione delle riviste scientifiche. Ogni relazione o intervento ha trattato di una specifica epoca storica. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2324 2011-12-31T23:00:00Z