Paola Gambarota

Irresistible Signs

The Genius of Language and Italian National Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781442642980
• ISBN-10: 144264298X
• Artikelnr.: 32941146

Autorenporträt

Paola Gambarota is an assistant professor in the Department of Italian at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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
Bibliography