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The War on Neologisms in the Italian Language
Title
The War on Neologisms in the Italian Language.
Creator
Baldocchi, Valeria, Ruthenberg, Myriam Swennen, Serra, Ilaria, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Globalization has become an agent of socioeconomic and communicative integration and today it envelops all aspects of human life. The quasi-immediate exchange of information that surpasses the now ancient barriers of time and space has triggered a sociocultural revolution with perceptible effects on the linguistic characteristics that are at the core of collective and individual identities. Among the most noticeable cultural changes are neologisms, which are often at the center of heated...
Show moreGlobalization has become an agent of socioeconomic and communicative integration and today it envelops all aspects of human life. The quasi-immediate exchange of information that surpasses the now ancient barriers of time and space has triggered a sociocultural revolution with perceptible effects on the linguistic characteristics that are at the core of collective and individual identities. Among the most noticeable cultural changes are neologisms, which are often at the center of heated linguistic debates. Some claim that the increased use of neologisms in the Italian language is a natural component of the fluctuating nature of a language and that their use enriches it. Linguistic purists take a more conservative stance and view neologisms as a linguistic enemy who blurs the distinctive differences among languages and robs them of their uniqueness. Neologisms are a mirror of contemporary Italian society and their use entails an often subconscious support of certain social currents.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005175
Subject Headings
College students --Research --United States.
Format
Document (PDF)
value of worthless lives: Italian immigrant autobiographies by "ordinary people"
Title
The value of worthless lives: Italian immigrant autobiographies by "ordinary people".
Creator
Serra, Ilaria., Florida Atlantic University, Tamburri, Anthony J.
Abstract/Description
"Immigrants left tears and sweat, but no memories." This dissertation tries to prove this assertion by the Italian critic Giuseppe Prezzolini wrong. Italian immigrants have sweated and cried, but many of them also left a trace of their "heroic" voyage between two continents, and two worlds, that took place in waves during the entire XX Century. With an oxymoron, I will speak about the value of worthless lives. These authors are no conquerors, saints or celebrities, but they believe that their...
Show more"Immigrants left tears and sweat, but no memories." This dissertation tries to prove this assertion by the Italian critic Giuseppe Prezzolini wrong. Italian immigrants have sweated and cried, but many of them also left a trace of their "heroic" voyage between two continents, and two worlds, that took place in waves during the entire XX Century. With an oxymoron, I will speak about the value of worthless lives. These authors are no conquerors, saints or celebrities, but they believe that their life stories are worth being written and remembered. There are many direct ties between the experience of migration and the need to write an autobiography. Autobiography is a response to the trauma of immigration and provides a kind of sutura for a wounded subject. Besides, immigration creates the "individual." Immigration is a kind of Copernican revolution which destabilizes the sense of human self; the immigrant feels the ground shifting under his feet and loses the center of his life, his home. Autobiography thus becomes the tool to build his/her own centrality, his/her own identity as a particle of this chaotic universe. Furthermore, by migrating, the Italian contadino (the majority of them came from the countryside) leaves a land that kept his family tied down for centuries, but most of all leaves the soil of the amorphous "mass" of suffering farmers, and creates a new individual. But the individuality of Italian immigrant autobiographies is somehow different from the individuality of American autobiographies. Our "unorthodox" authors demand a new critical terminology inviting concepts such as "Quiet Individualism" and "Ethos of the Survivor." The dissertation presents a gallery of immigrant self-portraits: nine immigrant workers; five the immigrant workers with a political conscience; ten immigrant workers with a poet's soul (including a farmer and a stonecutter who wrote two remarkable chivalric poems); five immigrants with religious interests; seven immigrant artists; nine immigrant women; eight graduated immigrants; and finally five successful immigrants, perfectly integrated into American society. In all, fifty-eight portraits that tell life stories and provide us with a lived slice of immigration history.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12088
Subject Headings
Immigrants--United States--Biography, Italian Americans--Biography, Autobiography
Format
Document (PDF)
The Arbëresh Culture: An Ace in the Hole, in the Heart of Calabria
Title
The Arbëresh Culture: An Ace in the Hole, in the Heart of Calabria.
Creator
Lubonja, Edna, Serra, Ilaria, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Lingustics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
The Arbëresh of Italy founded their communities in the 1400s when they were forced to flee their homeland, Albania, as the country was conquered and ruled by the Ottoman Empire. For centuries, they kept a close community in the Italian villages preserving their language, culture, rituals and traditions. These elements have defined them as “others” in the Italian community over the centuries, but today, they are better described as Italians who also embrace the Arbëresh culture. This...
Show moreThe Arbëresh of Italy founded their communities in the 1400s when they were forced to flee their homeland, Albania, as the country was conquered and ruled by the Ottoman Empire. For centuries, they kept a close community in the Italian villages preserving their language, culture, rituals and traditions. These elements have defined them as “others” in the Italian community over the centuries, but today, they are better described as Italians who also embrace the Arbëresh culture. This dissertation explores the narratives of Arbëresh authors such as Carmine Abate, Anna Stratigò, and Pino Cacozza, who have preserved glimpses of their culture in their writings, thus creating an oasis that I call “the Arbëresh Utopia.” I situate them in the larger context of Arbëresh history, and in the environment where their stories are located. A recent research conducted through interviews in the Arbëresh towns of Calabria, will add an important “lived” tassel of information, by exploring the Arbëresh culture today in a state of what Michel Foucault calls heterotopia. After many years of living in a closed community, the Arbëresh have learned to live by addition.
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Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004977, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004967
Subject Headings
Dissertations, Academic -- Florida Atlantic University, Calabria (Italy)., Arbëresh language., Heterotopia
Format
Document (PDF)
DECIPHERING TOM DISALVO: A FIRST-GENERATION ARTIST BETWEEN SICILY AND SOUTH FLORIDA
Title
DECIPHERING TOM DISALVO: A FIRST-GENERATION ARTIST BETWEEN SICILY AND SOUTH FLORIDA.
Creator
Diraviam, Domenica Santomaggio, Serra, Ilaria, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This dissertation aims to contextualize the self-taught Sicilian born artist, Tom DiSalvo (1947-2011) among contemporary artists of Italian extraction. It investigates a selection of his corpus of over 300 works of art spanning four decades as an integral contribution to Italian diasporic scholarship. The primarily large-scale paintings, enhanced with underlying textual layers and semiotic translations of famous works of art, reveal distinct ties to American, Italian and hybrid patterns of...
Show moreThis dissertation aims to contextualize the self-taught Sicilian born artist, Tom DiSalvo (1947-2011) among contemporary artists of Italian extraction. It investigates a selection of his corpus of over 300 works of art spanning four decades as an integral contribution to Italian diasporic scholarship. The primarily large-scale paintings, enhanced with underlying textual layers and semiotic translations of famous works of art, reveal distinct ties to American, Italian and hybrid patterns of ethnicity. Much of his work remains unknown in scholarly and public circles, due in part to the limited canon of Italian diasporic visual art (with the exception of film) and to DiSalvo’s own disapproval of the commodification of his art. The project originated with the classification of the artist’s personal artifacts and the interpretation of his canvases displayed in both public and private spaces. The methodology employed in this dissertation is as unique and multifaceted as its topic. I depart from paintings to reveal the man behind the canvas, thanks to the voices and memories of friends and family on both sides of the ocean, anchoring my findings to the foundation of scholarly discussions, and theoretical and critical sources in the disciplines of hybrid cultural studies, Italian and Italian American art and literature, as well as outsider art to verify the intersections between DiSalvo and members of each of these communities.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014053
Subject Headings
Italian American artists, Italian American art, Italian American experience
Format
Document (PDF)
PHENOESTHETICS AND THE ARCIMBOLDO CONNECTION: BRIDGING ART, SCIENCE, AND AESTHETICS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Title
PHENOESTHETICS AND THE ARCIMBOLDO CONNECTION: BRIDGING ART, SCIENCE, AND AESTHETICS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE.
Creator
Lindner, Robert W., Serra, Ilaria, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Amid the rapid advancements in clinical aesthetics, there lies an intricate gap between the artistic and sensory experience of facial aesthetics and the technical approach of medical sciences. As the field of clinical aesthetics veers further into the realm of the ideal, tensions arise between patient expectations and the practitioner's delivery. Central to this issue is the growing reliance on technology, which often overlooks the immediate sensory experience crucial for aesthetic...
Show moreAmid the rapid advancements in clinical aesthetics, there lies an intricate gap between the artistic and sensory experience of facial aesthetics and the technical approach of medical sciences. As the field of clinical aesthetics veers further into the realm of the ideal, tensions arise between patient expectations and the practitioner's delivery. Central to this issue is the growing reliance on technology, which often overlooks the immediate sensory experience crucial for aesthetic satisfaction. Drawing inspiration from the arts and humanities, this dissertation introduces "Phenoesthetics" as an epistemological bridge, harmonizing the seemingly disparate domains of sensory experience and scientific analysis. By using visual art, particularly the composite works of the Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, as an illustrative tool, this work seeks to elucidate the dual nature of facial aesthetics perception: the universal, tangible forms and the more abstract, cultural interpretations. By weaving together elements from the arts, humanities, and sciences, this study propounds a Phenoesthetics approach — a comprehensive method designed to enhance understanding and communication in clinical aesthetics. The aim is to provide practitioners with a robust framework, fostering more aligned expectations and improving satisfaction rates in the field of aesthetic medicine.
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Date Issued
2023
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014360
Subject Headings
Esthetics, Aesthetics, Medicine
Format
Document (PDF)