https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129810 2026-04-04T21:46:34Z 2026-04-04T21:46:34Z Rodler, Lucia https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130140 2024-12-23T07:30:27Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Goffredo Parise and the female figure : an Italian writer's encounter with American post-physiognomy Authors: Rodler, Lucia Abstract: In the 1960s Goffredo Parise made use of a series of interesting similes to describe the men and women of his time. The similarity between human being and animal gave rise to comparisons with objects, which brought with it the end of traditional physiognomy. Can this rhetorical choice which was deeply influenced by American post-physiognomy be considered a lucid and visionary anticipation of posthumanism? How did it shape Parise's depiction of the female figure?

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Pierini, Francesca https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130136 2024-12-23T07:19:12Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Multitudes of otherness : Italian and Indian crowds in Forster’s Where angels fear to tread and A passage to India Authors: Pierini, Francesca Abstract: This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster's literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign crowds. From Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) to A Passage to India (1924), it is possible to detect a movement of growing awareness, within Forster's consciousness, of the presence of the other. If the encounter with the Italian other is still highly mediated by an age-long literary tradition of fantasizing about the south of Europe that had depicted countries like Italy as unique constellations of counter-values to the British ethos, in A Passage to India the presence of the other is indeed more corporeal and revelatory of Forster's acquired maturity in his ways of dealing with the responsibility of thinking and representing otherness.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z D 'Agnillo, Renzo https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130133 2024-12-20T15:02:59Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: D.H. Lawrence's search for wholeness of being : from twilight in Italy to the lost girl Authors: D 'Agnillo, Renzo Abstract: In his novel The Lost Girl, Lawrence would resume the themes he had explored in his travelogue, Twilight in Italy in which his euphoric discovery of the country is set against his rejection of modem mechanisation and industrialism. The heavily brooding philosophical reflections he added to the original descriptive essays testify to a linguistic and intercultural restlessness that is symptomatic of his search for what he called wholeness of being. With attention to the stylistic and rhetorical features of the text, this article aims to show how, in his representation of the relationship between the two main protagonists, Alvina Houghton and her Italian lover Ciccio Marasca, Lawrence dramatizes this search in terms of a metaphysical quandary in which interpersonal relations override the confines of national and cultural identity.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicco, Maria https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130063 2024-12-19T14:10:43Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Italian hospital in London : 1884-1990 Authors: Chicco, Maria Abstract: The Italian Hospital in London was a voluntary hospital founded in 1884 to provide medical assistance, on a charitable basis, to the Italian community in the UK. Research conducted in local archives, contemporary newspapers and book literature, reveals the importance of the Hospital in the context of Anglo Italian relations, whose developments it closely mirrored. An interplay between social, political and medical factors shaped the Hospital's fortunes until its closure in 1990. These factors include: the presence of a large community of poor Italian immigrants in need of the Hospital's services, its role as a symbol of UK - Italy cooperation and later as a political tool used by the Italian fascist regime, and the impact of the foundation of the National Health Service. With post-war prosperity, integration of the Italian community within British society and availability of free healthcare, the raison d'etre for the Hospital ceased. Today, only the elegant building in Queen Square remains to testify to the past of this institution and its importance for Anglo-Italian relations.

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