Irresistible Signs : : The Genius of Language and Italina National Identity / / Paola Gambarota.
Language is now understood as a key component of cultural identity, but discourses on linguistic nationalism are only a few centuries old. In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the connection between Italian language and national identity over four hundred years, from late-Renaissance...
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Gambarota, Paola, author. Irresistible Signs : The Genius of Language and Italina National Identity / Paola Gambarota. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2011 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Scripts of Vernaculars and Collective Characters in Early Modern Europe -- 2 Ut Lingua, Natio: Dominique Bouhours's 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 Towards Sameness: Leopardi's Critique of Character, and the End of the Nation -- Irresistible Signs? A Postscript and the Question of Media -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Language is now understood as a key component of cultural identity, but discourses on linguistic nationalism are only a few centuries old. 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.Challenging the consensus that linguistic nationalism originated with nineteenth century German philosophers, Irresistible Signs advances a more nuanced theory of how culture and language become inextricably linked through literary and rhetorical elements. Gambarota combines Anglo-American theories of the nation with the most advanced Italian scholarship on language ideology and delves into ideas from Giambattista Vico, Giacomo Leopardi, and Melchiorre Cesarotti. Irresistible Signs also explores how images of national communities are represented within vernaculars, affirming their influence in shaping contemporary models of monolingual nationhood. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9781442642980 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442695269 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442695269.jpg |
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Gambarota, Paola, Irresistible Signs : The Genius of Language and Italina National Identity / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Scripts of Vernaculars and Collective Characters in Early Modern Europe -- 2 Ut Lingua, Natio: Dominique Bouhours's 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 Towards Sameness: Leopardi's Critique of Character, and the End of the Nation -- Irresistible Signs? A Postscript and the Question of Media -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Scripts of Vernaculars and Collective Characters in Early Modern Europe -- 2 Ut Lingua, Natio: Dominique Bouhours's 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 Towards Sameness: Leopardi's Critique of Character, and the End of the Nation -- Irresistible Signs? A Postscript and the Question of Media -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Scripts of Vernaculars and Collective Characters in Early Modern Europe -- 2 Ut Lingua, Natio: Dominique Bouhours's 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 Towards Sameness: Leopardi's Critique of Character, and the End of the Nation -- Irresistible Signs? A Postscript and the Question of Media -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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