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11	SPERANZA E SPERANZE NELLA LETTERATURA ITALIANA DEL SECONDO NOVECENTO / Hope and Hopes in Italian Literature in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century MASETTI, LUCIA 14 May 2021 (has links) Scopo della ricerca non è registrare esaustivamente le occorrenze della speranza nella letteratura contemporanea, bensì mostrarne con esempi significativi le molteplici sfumature, evidenziando così la sua pervasività nell’esperienza umana e la sua capacità di resistenza. In particolare è stata analizzata l’opera omnia di nove autori: Carlo Betocchi, Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Primo Levi, Mario Luzi, Luigi Santucci, Vittorio Sereni e Ignazio Silone. Si è utilizzata una metodologia comparativa, con aperture multidisciplinari. La tesi è suddivisa in otto parti, corrispondenti a diverse declinazioni del tema centrale. La prima offre una descrizione generale della speranza e dei suoi presupposti, la seconda approfondisce il legame con l’esperienza della temporalità. Le due parti successive analizzano la speranza per come si attua nella vita del singolo, da due punti di vista complementari: in quanto virtù matura, che chiede all’uomo di essere all’altezza di sé stesso, e in quanto virtù “bambina”, che si esprime nell’attenzione alle piccole cose del quotidiano. La quinta parte si apre a considerare la speranza nelle relazioni interpersonali, la sesta si concentra sul suo rapporto con la bellezza (naturale e culturale); infine le ultime parti sviluppano il tema del trascendente, ossia della speranza in relazione alla morte e al Divino. / My research does not aim to record exhaustively the occurrences of hope in contemporary literature. It rather wants to show hope’s multiple nuances through significant examples, highlighting its pervasiveness and resistance. I specifically analyse the works of nine authors: Carlo Betocchi, Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Primo Levi, Mario Luzi, Luigi Santucci, Vittorio Sereni and Ignazio Silone. I use a comparative methodology, with a multidisciplinary approach. My thesis is divided into eight parts, each of ones examines a different declination of the central theme. The first one offers a general description of hope and its presuppositions, the second one explores the link between hope and temporality. The next two parts analyse hope as practically displayed in individual life, from two complementary points of view: as a mature virtue, which asks every man to live up to himself, and as a "child" virtue, expressed in caring for the small things of everyday life. The fifth part opens to consider hope in interpersonal relationships, the sixth focuses on its links with natural and cultural beauty. Finally, the last two parts develop the theme of hope in relation to death and the Divine. L-FIL-LET/10: LETTERATURA ITALIANA
12	Ramism, Rhetoric and Reform : An Intellectual Biography of Johan Skytte (1577–1645) Ingemarsdotter, Jenny January 2011 (has links) This thesis is an intellectual biography of the Swedish statesman Johan Skytte (1577–1645), focusing on his educational ideals and his contributions to educational reform in the early Swedish Age of Greatness. Although born a commoner, Skytte rose to be one of the most powerful men in Sweden in the first half of the seventeenth century, serving three generations of regents. As a royal preceptor and subsequently a university chancellor, Skytte appears as an early educational politician at a time when the Swedish Vasa dynasty initiated a number of far-reaching reforms, including the revival of Sweden’s only university at the time (in Uppsala). The contextual approach of the thesis shows how Skytte’s educational reform agenda was shaped by nationally motivated arguments as well as by a Late Renaissance humanist heritage, celebrating education as the foundation of all prosperous civilizations. Utilizing a largely unexplored source material written mostly in Latin, the thesis analyzes how Skytte’s educational arguments were formed already at the University of Marburg in the 1590s, where he learned to embrace the utility-orientated ideals of the French humanist Petrus Ramus (1515–1572). Moreover, the analysis shows that the expanding Swedish state administration in the early seventeenth century was in urgent need of educated civil servants, and that this basic demand favored an ideology based on education, skill and merit. It is shown that Skytte skillfully combined a Ramist and patriotic rhetoric with narratives of individual merit and rewards, conveying not least himself as an example. The thesis argues that Skytte’s rhetoric reflects the formation of a new professional category in the Swedish society, one that was distinguished from the royal courtier, the clergyman, the merchant, the warrior, and the scholar. This category is the professional civil servant whose identity was dependent on skills and education. Johan Skytte history of education Ramism Petrus Ramus utility merit humanism Late Renaissance Sweden Age of Greatness patriotism Hesse-Kassel the University of Marburg Uppsala University Charles IX Gustav II Adolf Vasa Neo-Latin dissertation oration rhetoric reform the mathematical arts eloquence History of science and ideas Idé- o lärdomshistoria
13	Are We There Yet? Gay Representation in Contemporary Canadian Drama Berto, Tony 16 August 2013 (has links) This study acknowledges that historical antipathies towards gay men have marginalised their theatrical representation in the past. However, over the last century a change has occurred in the social location of gay men in Canada (from being marginalised to being included). Given these changes, questions arise as to whether staged representations of gay men are still marginalised today. Given antipathies towards homosexuality and homophobia may contribute to the how theatres determine the riskiness of productions, my investigation sought a correlation between financial risk in theatrical production and the marginalisation of gay representations on stage. Furthermore, given that gay sex itself, and its representation on stage, have been theorised as loci of antipathies to gayness, I investigate the relationship between the visibility and overtness of gay sex in a given play and the production of that play’s proximity to the mainstream. The study located four plays from across the spectrum of production conditions (from high to low financial risk) in BC. Analysis of these four plays shows general trends, not only in the plays’ constructions but also in the material conditions of their productions that indicate that gay representations become more overt, visible and sexually explicit when less financial risk was at stake. Various factors are identified – including the development of the script, the producing theatre, venue, and promotion of the production – that shape gay representation. The analysis reveals that historical theatrical practices, that have had the effect of marginalizing the representations of gays in the past, are still in place. These practices appear more prevalent the higher the financial risk of the production. / The author would like to sincerely thank Ann Wilson, Ric Knowles, Matthew Hayday, Alan Shepard, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Michael Lewis MacLennan, Conrad Alexandrowicz, Chris Grignard, Edward Roy, Brad Fraser, Cole J. Alvis, Jonathan Seinan, David Oiye, Clinton Walker, Sean Cummings, Darrin Hagin, and Chris Galatchian. / SSHRC, The Heather McCallum Scholarship, Lambda Prize for achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gendered studies. Daniel MacIvor Michael Lewis MacLennan Conrad Alexandrowicz Christopher Grignard His Greatness The Shooting Stage Beggars Would Ride The Orchard Drive Gay theatre Canadian Theatre Contemporary Theatre. Mainstream theatre Alternative Theatre Queer theatre Queer Canadian Theatre Gay social location of gay men gay history Vancouver B.C. lower mainland Kelowna Fringe theatre push festival wild excursions Vancouver arts club firehall theatre staging gay sex Alan Sinfield homosexuality conditions of production conditions of reception horizon of expectation four Ds homophobia gay cultural production gay youth Tennessee Williams material conditions marginalising representations of gays

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