italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear All
This recent communication from someone signing himself Martin McLaughlin moves the debate onto new terrain. He claims to know not only that Ms Tarantino has published certain matter but that she herself does exist. Does she? Does he? How do we know? There was a previous email from one Brian Moloney. Does he exist? Should he exist? What is either of them for? The same may be said for someone purporting to be Caruso, a celebrated tenor who died many years ago. This may give the clue. Perhaps this debate is taking place in the ether among beings whose existence is uncertain, or past. This question was previously ethically worrying, but now the metaphysics are deeply concerning.
Joe Farrell, in Auckland, if you believe me.
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From: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Martin McLaughlin [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 April 2014 15:20
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Subject: Re: [I-S] Somewhat odd request (but please help if you can)
italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear All,
Yes, as Elisabetta Tarantino became Research Assistant at the European Humanities Research Centre at Oxford last year, I can guarantee that I have seen copies of (and read) the publications listed: they do exist!
I have agreed to co-edit a festschrift with her
http://www.legendabooks.com/titles/isbn/9781907975752.html
and to participate in a workshop on Sciascia with her
http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/Sciascia2014
so I am familiar with her work: she and her publications do exist.
Martin McLaughlin
On 4/14/2014 07:44, Elisabetta Tarantino wrote:
italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Colleagues
I am writing to ask for help with something incredible that is happening. Someone came to me the other day and said that there are people going round saying that some of my publications do not actually exist, that I've made them up (!)
Obviously, I have paper copies I can show either in person (if you are in the Coventry area or nearby) or on Skype if anyone is interested. But it would be a really great help if some of you could look them up in a library near you and post or tweet that you've seen them (no more than four or five posts on this list, please - I do not want to swamp it with my problems). I think the publications in question are mostly these:
“Le due versioni del foglio D della Cena de le Ceneri.” Bruniana & Campanelliana 10.2 (2004): 413-424.
“Sailing off on the Adel: Alessandro Baricco’s Metaliterary Trilogy (Part I).” Romance Studies 25.3 (July 2007): 241-255; Part II: Romance Studies 25.4 (November 2007): 323-337.
“Petrarca, Bucolicum Carmen I (Parthenias)”, in Filologia e storia letteraria. Studi per Roberto Tissoni. Eds. C. Caruso and W. Spaggiari. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2008, pp. 47-56.
“Fulvae Harenae: The Reception of an Intertextual Complex in Dante's Inferno.” Classical Receptions Journal 4.1 (May 2012): 90-126.
I'm really sorry to be taking up your time with this, but I do not know what else to do.
Many thanks to all
Elisabetta
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