OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Italian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Il linguaggio degli opposti estremismi negli anni di piombo. Un’analisi comparativa del lessico nelle manifestazioni di piazza	7
Unfinished Italy	4
Chaff in the Winds of War? The Arandora Star, Not Forgetting and Commemoration at the 80^th Anniversary	4
Il linguaggio politico della sinistra e della destra extraparlamentari negli anni di piombo	3
‘Cultural Activities’ in Foreign Language Teaching: A Multimodal Perspective on Italian Language Textbooks	3
Italian Language Learning and Student Motivation at Australian Universities	2
Potentiality and Adaptability: Neoliberalism and Italian Thought	2
Potentiality and Uprisings: Georges Didi-Huberman in Dialogue with Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri	2
Dante and Video Games: The Unrealised Potential of the Virtual Commedia	2
On Their Way to University? Understanding Tertiary Students’ Experience of Italian Language Study at Secondary School	1
Roberto Esposito’s Critique of Personhood and the Neoliberalization of Potentiality	1
Introduction: Writing and Resisting Violence against Women	1
L’immaginario della traduzione nell’opera di Natalia Ginzburg	1
Agamben’s Impotentiality: Separation, Nonrelationality, and Destituent Potential in The Use of Bodies	1
Dante, Peter of Trabibus, and the ‘Schools of the Religious Orders’ in Florence	1
The Silent Victim: Rape and Sexuality in Giacinta and ‘Tortura’ by Luigi Capuana	1
Introduction: Dante as Mediator and Dante’s Mediators	1
L’epopea di Canale Mussolini e il romanzo familiare in Italia	1
Leopardi’s Disaster	1
Italian Theory and Feminist Materialism: A Reappraisal	1
Petrarch’s Deer in Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta 190 and the Visio Beatifica	1
Retrieving or Revising? Using Mythology in Contemporary Italian Literature against Femicide	1
Bringing up the Bodies: Material Encounters in Elsa Morante’s La Storia	1
Nel laboratorio della finzione. Modi narrativi e memoria poietica in Elsa Morante	0
Potentiality, Forms of Life, and Politics	0

‘La tradizione è come il mare’: Giuseppe Pitrè’s Transnational Approach to Folk and Fairy Tales in the New Italy	0
Finding Ferrante. Authorship and the Politics of World Literature	0
Gadda. Interpreti a confronto	0
Angelenos? What’s That? Young Italians in Los Angeles in the Fiction of John Fante, Andrea De Carlo, and Chiara Barzini	0
Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature , by Mara Josi, Oxford, MHRA, 2023, 179 pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN 9	0
Between Resistance and Canonisation: A Critique of Italian Crime Criticism	0
100 Poems	0
Le prose poetiche di Roberto Rossi Precerutti: strutture e reversibilità dello sguardo nei Fatti di Caravaggio (2016)	0
Grown Up Boyz and Girlz. Italian Graphic Novelists’ Trans-European Paths and Gendered Representations	0
In Memoriam: John Woodhouse (1937–2023)	0
Vite nuove. Biografia e autobiografia di Dante	0
When the Serenissima is No Longer Serene: Staging Chaos in La Veniexiana	0
Gli atlanti della letteratura Italiana dell’Ottocento: Una riflessione sul pensiero geografico nella storiografia letteraria italiana	0
Figlie dell’alchimia. Donne e cultura scientifica nell’Italia della prima età moderna Figlie dell’alchimia. Donne e cultura scientifica nell’Italia della prima età moderna	0
Perdere le radici. Appunti sulla modernità di Italo Calvino	0
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power	0
Antonio Sebastiano Minturno between Poetry and Poetics: The Rime and the Arte Poetica	0
Donna o Silhouette? Rappresentazioni transmediali della ballerina classica italiana tra anni Trenta e anni Cinquanta	0
Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature	0
Pia Pera’s Poetics of the Planetary Garden	0
Queering Two Resistance Novels: Historical Trauma, Open Secrets, and Non-Genealogical Plot in Carlo Coccioli’s Il migliore e l’ultimo and Beppe Fenoglio’s Il libro di Johnny	0
Elena Ferrante. Poetiche e politiche della soggettività	0
Nel mezzo: Roland Barthes’s Mediated Dante and Dantean Figures of Mediation	0
Italian Orientalism: Nationhood, Cosmopolitanism, and the Cultural Politics of Identity	0
Man as Memory and Metaphor of Matter: Italo Calvino’s ‘Priscilla’ and the Narration of (Bio)science	0
Almarina di Valeria Parrella fra forma letteraria e rapporti sociali	0
Roberto L. Bruni (1945–2020)	0
(Extra)ordinary Sensation and Visionary Perception in Dante’s Purgatorio XV and XVII	0
Un viaggio a due voci: il nunzio apostolico Andrea Santacroce e il suo segretario Giovan Battista Fagiuoli nella Polonia del Seicento	0
San Giacomo, la Speranza e i Salmi a Paradiso XXV	0
Representations of Eritrea in Italian Documentaries (1951 – 2015)	0
Space and Violence in WWII Italian Captivity in Africa: Becoming a POW between Mount Kenya and the Equator Line	0
Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History	0
‘I’d Like to See an Italian Film or TV Series in Which a Girl Moves Abroad’: Italian Girlhood and Nomadic Experiences	0
Professor Peter M. Brown (1926 –2022)	0
Clandestinità e trasgressione nel Seicento: una traduzione manoscritta del Satyricon di Petronio e i suoi lettori	0
The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy	0
Manipulating the Voice of the Other: On the Sagapò Army, Italiani Brava Gente, and Other Italian War Rumours of the Second World War	0
Matera in posa : The Photographic Self-Portrait of a Southern-Italian City, 1900–1920	0
Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy	0
Primi appunti sulla ricezione di Walter Scott nelle gazzette italiane del primo Ottocento	0
The Poetic Logic of Panism: An Idealistic Reading of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Alcyone	0
La Clitennestra di Dacia Maraini nel contesto teatrale e femminista: luci e ombre, sogni e deliri intorno alla ricezione del mito	0
Dante’s Masterplot and the Alternative Narrative Models in the Commedia	0
Dalla Francia all’Italia. Sulla ricezione del romanzo inglese nei giornali veneziani di fine Settecento (1773-1797)	0
Varieties of ‘Classicism’ in the 1920s: The Peculiar Case of Armando Spadini	0
Remembering the Queer Exiles of San Domino: In Italia sono tutti maschi (2008) and The Red Tree (2018)	0
The Young Dante: Archetypes of His Early Intellectual Biography	0
A ‘New’ Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage	0
The Power of Affiliation: Dynastic Blood, Artificial Kinship and Legitimation Strategies. The Case of the Della Rovere Dukes of Urbino^*	0

Pagan Gods as Figures of Speech: Dante’s Use of Servius in the Vita Nova	0
The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style	0
Representing Women’s Displacement from the Margins in Liberal Italy: Vittorio Corcos’s Annunciazione (1904) and Sogni (1896)	0
Alienazione e irrealtà in Ottieri e Antonioni: Osservazioni sul ‘modo cinematografico’ ne L’impagliatore di sedie	0
Queer Bandits and Partisans: Reimagining Male Homosexuality in Early Post-War Italy	0
The Lottery Fantasy and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Venetian Literature: Carlo Goldoni, Pietro Chiari, and Giacomo Casanova	0
Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War: History, Representations and Memory	0
The Cross of Mars: Crusade Imagery and Theology in the Prologue to the Encounter with Cacciaguida ( Par . xiv–xv)*	0
‘And Now the Great Day Had Come, the 14th of May, 1865!’: Anna Vivanti-Lindau e il seicentenario dantesco ^*	0
Nostalgia dell’abisso. I romanzi di Enrico Pea degli anni Trenta	0
In Memoriam: Professor Michael Caesar (1945–2022)	0
Ruggiero, Melissa, and Effeminate Enchantment in the Garden of Alcina	0
Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy , by Elena Zambelli, New York	0
The Italian Diaspora in South Africa: Origins and Identity	0
Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor	0
Il romanzo neomodernista italiano. Dalla fine del neorealismo alla seconda metà degli anni Settanta	0
Silence, Witnessing, and the Implicated Subject in Erri De Luca’s Il torto del soldato	0
‘Il sospetto di un altro mondo’: appunti per una storia originaria (1936–1945)	0
Seeing Poems of Suffering and The Future of the Nation: On the Meaning of the Eyes in Italian Literature of the Great War, 1915–1935	0
Le città invisibili as Cybertext and Cyberspace: Italo Calvino, Ted Nelson, and Arata Isozaki	0
The Author in Criticism: Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom	0
Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948)	0
La botanica come metafora nell’opera di Andrea Zanzotto	0
A ‘Whirlwind of Eloquence’: Sources for a Moral Reading of Ulysses’s ‘turbo’ (Inf. XXVI, 137)	0
Coming of Age among Multiple Languages: Exploring the ‘Polyglot’ as an Intersectional Subject in Claudia Durastanti’s La Straniera (2019)	0
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective	0
Neither Utopia nor Juvenile Transgression: Retracing the Link between the Movimento del ’77, Autonomy, and Literature	0
La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype	0
From Dutiful Name-Dropping to Warm Esteem: Dante’s Statius between De Vulgari Eloquentia, Convivio III and Convivio IV.XXV	0
Violante, Violente, Violenta: la novella I. 42 di Matteo Bandello e le sue riscritture tra Francia, Inghilterra e Spagna	0
Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories	0
L’universalizzazione epica di una problematica politica locale: la matrice estense della Gerusalemme liberata	0
The Lyric Dante in the Twentieth Century: Hermeneutics and Editorial Forms	0
Tuscany Beyond Tuscany: Rethinking the City from the Periphery	0
Fantascienza e ufologia nell’opera di Inisero Cremaschi, Gilda Musa e Giuseppe Pederiali, 1967–1978	0
Bruno Munari: The Lightness of Art	0
The Etruscan Inferno: A Spatial and Synaesthetic Reading by Gabriele D’Annunzio	0
Una macchina mitologica del ’68. Nanni Balestrini e il rituale della Grande Rivolta Una macchina mitologica del ’68. Nanni Balestrini e il rituale della Grande Rivolta ,	0
Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion , edited by Marco Malvestio and Stefano Serafini, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 20	0
Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy	0
Gendering Women’s Violence in the Quattrocento: The Case of Gregorio Correr’s Procne (c. 1429)	0
Rappresentare la violenza di genere. Sguardi femministi tra critica, attivismo e scrittura	0
Italian Chimeras: Narrating Italy through the Writing of Sebastiano Vassalli	0
Folklore, razza, fascismo Folklore, razza, fascismo , a cura di Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2023, 339 pp., €25.00, ISSN 0409-6231	0
Mediating Christ in Paradiso and in MS Vat.lat.4776	0
La scrittura desterrada di Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso: il caso delle ‘Letters of an Exile’	0
Tra memoria e resistenza: Una lettura spaziale delle Case della Vetra di Giovanni Raboni	0
Glossing Boethius Through Dante: Auctoritas and Philosophical Poetry in BML MS Plut. 78.20 and the Dante Commentary Tradition	0
Under Pinocchio’s Skin: The Uncanny Woodenness of a Permanent Body	0
Apocryphal News and Apocryphal Truths in Early Modern Italy: Girolamo Gigli’s Gazzettino (1712–1713)	0
Dalla generazione all’individuo. Giovinezza, identità, impegno nell’opera di Pier Vittorio Tondelli	0
Gio Ponti, la collaborazione con le ditte Singer e Altamira e l’immagine postbellica del design italiano negli Stati Uniti	0
Between Memory and Matter: Italy and the Transnational Dimensions of Public Art	0
La carta veloce. Figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento	0
Multilingual Encounters in the Contact Zone. The Transnational Film Adaptations of Tabucchi’s Dama de Porto Pim and Nocturne indien	0
Franca Rame Won the Nobel Prize: Approaching the Works of Dario Fo and Franca Rame as Collaboration	0
Fame, inappetenza e disgusto: il cibo nei film e nei sogni di Fellini	0
Introduction: Italian Theory and the Problem of Potentiality	0
‘Una verità totale’: The Textual and Visual Encounter With the Other in Franco Fortini’s Asia Maggiore. Viaggio nella Cina	0
Donne interpreti della Bibbia nell’Italia della prima età moderna: Comunità ermeneutiche e riscritture	0
Eco and Gramsci: Unexplored Connections in Cultural Studies	0
Uno scrittore su più tavoli : il concetto di tragico nei capitoli XX e XXI dei Promessi sposi	0
Profezia	0
Leopardi. L’alba del nichilismo	0
Orality and Written Culture in Italian Migrant Literature: The Work of Yousif Jaralla	0
L’antichità «crudele». Etruschi e Italici nella letteratura italiana del Novecento	0
Vite e carriere di pittori con sordità prelinguale attivi in Italia nel periodo 1590–1720	0
Giovani e abuso sessuale nella letteratura italiana (1902-2018)	0
We Will Set You Free: Representations of the ‘Antislavery Argument’ in British and Italian Missionary Films (1925–1939)	0
Autobiography as Self-Ethnography in Italo Calvino’s ‘La poubelle agréée’	0
Margins, Subjectivity, and Violence in Elena Ferrante’s Cronache del mal d’amore	0
Esuli: scrittori e scrittrici dall’antichità a oggi	0
Atti di accusa. Testi teatrali e interviste sulla rappresentazione della violenza contro le donne	0
A Martyr for the Resistance and the New Republic: The Uses of Giacomo Matteotti’s Memory, 1943 to 1947	0
‘Occhi Fissi’: Fixing the Gaze in Dante’s Commedia	0
Italo Calvino’s Spatial Imagination: Between Intellectual Abstraction and Embodied Experience	0
‘Cupidone buggerone’, ovvero Gadda e la demistificazione dello stilnovismo	0
Screening Religions in Italy: Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-Secular Public Sphere	0
How We Fell in Love with Italian Food	0
Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language	0

Fotografie ed ossa: testimonianza e sopravvivenza ne La nera novella di Alda Merini	0
La nascita del modernismo italiano. Filosofie della crisi, storia e letterature, 1903-1922	0
Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts	0
La lingua del padrone. Giovanni Giudici traduttore dall’inglese	0
Rewriting the Transnational Dimension of Italian Migration to Wales in the Time of COVID-19	0
Calvino and Japanese Gardens: A ‘Trajectivity’ between the Human and More-than-Human	0
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion	0
Onryō a Pavia: gotico padano, parapsicologia e Techno-Horror in un romanzo di Mino Milani	0
Claiming Social and Cultural Dignity: Isabella Andreini’s Rime	0
Le vite degli altri abitano la mia. La scrittura del sé nell’opera di Fabrizia Ramondino. Testimonianze di G. Cacciapuoti, A. Cirillo, G. Fofi, M. Liguori, T. Marrone, M. Martone, G. M. Scamardella, E	0
Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism	0
Illuminating the Vita Nuova: Phoebe Anna Traquair, Evelyn Paul, and Medievalist Practices of Visual Mediation	0
Dante ‘davanti a la ruina’ (Inferno v, 34): Minos, the Ruins of Hell, and the Book of Nahum	0
Reflections on the ‘Trans’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words (In altre parole)	0
Im-mediated Dante: Rachel Owen’s Illustrations for the Commedia	0
The Forgotten Askari	0
Elena Ferrante as World Literature	0
Representing the Species: Moravia in Parliament	0
Negotiating Foreign Influence in Fascist Italy: Nicola Festa on Greek Learning in Renaissance Humanism	0
Vicissitudes of a Dantean Collection: The 1527 ‘Giuntina delle rime’	0
Chandra Livia Candiani’s Buddhism: Crossing Cultural and Species Boundaries to Become a Co-dividual	0
Introduction	0
‘Il disagio di stare al mondo’: Coming of Age, Masculinity, and Maradona in Paolo Sorrentino’s È stata la mano di Dio	0
Fascist Modernism in Italy. Arts and Regimes	0
Kaleidoscopic Beatrice: Through the Theologians, as a Theologian	0
La sintassi marcata in Le menzogne della notte di Gesualdo Bufalino: eroi romantici, tono favoloso e colpi di scena del novellare	0
Corporeità e natura in Leopardi Corporeità e natura in Leopardi , by Gaspare Polizzi, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2023, 330 pp., €26 (paperback), ISBN 9788857598918	0
The Ultimate Italian. Dante and a Nation’s Identity The Ultimate Italian. Dante and a Nation’s Identity , by Fulvio Conti, translated by Patrick John Barr, London and Ne	0
Like a Mass Image: Fellini’s Le tentazioni del Dottor Antonio, Advertising and Mimicry	0