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Dear Members,
I should like to announce the publication and presentation of a volume on the Italian language in memory of Clara Florio Cooper, the late Instructor in Italian at Oxford University.
Dr Helena Sanson (Clare College, Cambridge) will present the volume
‘Ciò che potea la nostra lingua’: Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper, ed. by Vilma De Gasperin (The Italianist, 30, 2010, Special Supplement)
Friday 18th February, 5 pm, Oxford, Taylor Institution, Room 2.
Free Admission – no registration required.
Should anyone wish to receive further information or abstracts of the articles, or wish to order a copy (£25 plus postage), please contact Dr Vilma De Gasperin at [log in to unmask]
The volume collects the first six Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lectures (2005-2010) on Italian linguistics and history of the language, plus nine essays on Italian language and literature. Below is the table of contents.
With best wishes,
Vilma
VOLUME PLAN
Title: 'Ciò che potea la lingua nostra. Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper'
Introduction (Vilma De Gasperin)
Part I: Lectures in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper 2005-2010
Giulio Lepschy, ‘What’s in a dictionary?’ (2005)
Martin Maiden, ‘Italian's Long-Lost Sister: the Romanian Language and why Italianists should know about it’ (2006)
Nigel Vincent , ‘Language, geography and history in medieval Italy’ (2007)
Mair Parry, ‘Matters of choice: Language preferences in Italy today’ (2008)
Brian Richardson, ‘‘Varie maniere di parlare’: aspects of learning Italian in Renaissance Italy and Britain' (2009)
Adam Ledgeway, '"Lingua Toscana in bocca calabra": Italian in Calabria' (2010
Part II: Essays on Language and Literature
Peter Hainsworth, ‘Translating the Decameron. Some problems and possibilities’
Diego Zancani, ‘Notes on the vocabulary of gastronomy in literary works from Boccaccio to Giulio Cesare Croce’
John Woodhouse, ‘Frustration and humour in the philology of Vincenzio Borghini (1515-80)’
Guido Bonsaver, ‘“Fare gli itagliani” in the Bolognese countryside: Some notes on literature, language and cultural history in post-unification Italy’
Anna Laura Lepschy, ‘Annie Vivanti as self-translator: the case of The Devourers and Circe’
Giuseppe Stellardi, ‘Gadda: la lingua, lo stile (e gli errori)’
Martin McLaughlin, ‘Really Reading Calvino in English translation?’
Emmanuela Tandello, ‘De vulgari eloquentia: Franco Scataglini’s Olimpo’
Vilma De Gasperin, ‘“Protesta nello stile”: appunti sulla lingua ne L’Iguana di Anna Maria Ortese’
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