DRAFT SCHEDULE AAIS 1999: 17 Feb. 1999



THURSDAY 15 APRIL 7:30-8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST            Columbia Foyer

THURSDAY 15 APRIL 8 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. REGISTRATIONMain Lobby, Valley River Inn

THURSDAY 15 APRIL 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.: BOOK EXHIBIT            Willamette Foyer


THURSDAY 15 APRIL 8:30-9:45: Sessions 

1. Not Dante: Writers of the Due-and Trecento Thurs. 8:30-9:45
Organizer: Olivia Holmes
Chair: Dana Stewart

Stelio Cro, Valdosta State University: "Guinizzelli's Alchemy:
the Purification of Love"

Cristiana Fordyce, Boston College: "Mercanti nel tempio"

Tom Peterson, University of Georgia: "The Role of Fable in the
First Centenary of the Canzoniere"

2. Italian Renaissance Literature and Theatre: Critical
Approaches Thurs. 8:30-9:45
Organizer and Chair: Kristin Phillips, Yale University


Laura Giannetti, Pennsylvania State University: "Il gioco come
strumento ermeneutico nell'analisi dei testi teatrali
cinquecenteschi"

Nunzio Rizzi, University of Toronto: "Nuovi padroni e nuovi
servi: lo strano caso della Venexiana"

Vincenzo E. De Nardo, Southern Methodist University: "Satira
politica e classicismo nelle opere letterarie di Machiavelli"


3. Language and Ideology: Stereotypes of the South in Media,
Literature and Textbooks Thurs. 8:30-9:45
Organizer and Chair: Giulia Centineo, University of California-
Santa Cruz

Lisa Bland, University of Texas: "'Il problema del Mezzogiorno':
An Exploration of North/South Stereotypes in Published Texts"

Colleen Marie Ryan, University of Notre Dame: "Comizi d'amore
(Love Meetings, 1963) by Pier Paolo Pasolini"

Mark Chu, National University of Ireland, Cork: "'Passion' and
'Deviancy': Constructions of the South in Contemporary Crime
Fiction"


4. Literary Translation, I Thurs. 8:30-9:45
Chair: 

Anthony Mortimer, University of Freiburg and Geneva: "Translating
Petrarch Now, or How English Can You Get"

Robert Durling, University of California-Santa Cruz: "A New
Translation of Purgatorio"



5. Alba de Cespedes Thurs. 8:30-9:45
Organizer and Chair: Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey

Christine Ristaino (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
"Gender and Circumstance: Writing the Private Man and Woman in
Alba de Cespedes' Il rimorso"

Cosetta Seno Reed, University of California-Berkeley: Alba de
Cespedes: scrittura come recupero dell'identita'. Il diario di
Valeria Cossati in Quaderno proibito"

Giancarlo Lombardi, Smith College: Panoptical Portraits: Desire
and Deceit in La bambolona"

6. The Twentieth Century as History Thurs. 8:30-9:45
Chair:

Vincenza Scarpaci, Eugene, OR: "Teaching Sacco-Vanzetti: Sources
and Approaches for English-Language Classrooms"

Daniel Pope, University of Oregon: "'A Letto Dopo Carosello':
Behind the Carosello Phenomenon"

Albert Sbragia, University of Washington: "Gadda and the Idea of
Rome" 



7. Writing Women / Women Writers in the 18th Century Thurs. 8:30-
9:45
Organizer: Lori J. Ultsch, University of Memphis
Chair:

Lori J. Ultsch, University of Memphis: "The Editor and Her
Audience"

Paola Giuli, St. Joseph's University: "Sexual/Textual Politics in
18th-Century Italy: A Woman Poet's Perspective in Unedited
Letters and Poems"

Emilia Abbo, Boston College: "Figure femminili nel teatro
'realista' di Carlo Goldoni"


THURSDAY 15 APRIL 10-11:15: Sessions


8. Renaissance Forms and Genres Thurs. 10-11:15
Chair: Lisa Freinkel, University of Oregon

Sergio Corsi, Loyola University-Chicago: "Testamenti storici e
no: per la storia di un 'genere' minore"

Patricia B. Wareh, University of California-Berkeley: "The
Rhetoric of Imitation in Machiavelli's Prince"

Mauda Bregoli-Russo, University of Illinois-Chicago: "Le novelle
di Lorenzo de' Medici"


9. Poesia italiana contemporanea Thurs. 10-11:15 
Organizer and Chair: Luigi Fontanella, SUNY Stony Brook

Federica Pedriali, University of Edinburgh: "Sugli Ossi di Seppia
di Eugenio Montale"

Anna Amendolagine, University of British Columbia: "Patrizia
Cavalli: le sue poesie non cambieranno il mondo"

Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey: "Poesie ed eroismo in
Donne in Poesia di Maria Luisa Spaziani"


10. Alessandro Manzoni e il romanzo dell'Ottocento Thurs. 10-
11:15
Organizer and Chair: Massimo Lollini, University of Oregon

Cinzia Di Giulio, Purdue University: "Un fantasma si aggira per
Milano ... Riflessioni su Manzoni e la narrativa italiana
dell'Ottocento"

Annamaria Pagliaro, Monash University: "Reality and Idealism: The
Case of Ermanno Raeli"

Sandra Parmegiani, Toronto, Ontario: "The English Novel in
Italian Newspapers in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries"


11. Sex and Sensuality in Italian Women's Writing Thurs. 10-11:15
Organizer and Chair: Sandy Waters, University of California-
Berkeley

Giuliana Katz, University of Toronto: "Le adolescenze tormentate
di Fleur Jaeggy"

Irene Zanini, University of California-Berkeley: "Il problema
della sessualit… nell'opera di Paolo Drigo"

Elisabetta Nelson, San Francisco State University: "'Ecriture
f‚minine' as Language of the Body in Dacia Maraini's Early
Narrative"

Claudia Karagoz, University of California-Berkeley: "Beyond the
Heterosexual Paradigm: The Portrayal of Lesbian Desire in Elena
Stancarelli's Benzina"


12. Glossolalias: The Tradition of Polylinguism in Italian
Literature, I Thurs. 10-11:15
Organizers: Massimo Scalabrini, University of Washington e Davide
Stimilli, Northwestern University
Chair: Massimo Scalabrini, University of Washington

Davide Stimilli, Northwestern University: "Lingua Franca:
Enfranchising the Italian Tongue"

Olga Pugliese, University of Toronto: "Polyglotism in Il libro
del cortegiano: From the Manuscript Drafts to the Printed
Edition"

Richard Block, Northwestern University: "Taking Words out of the
Father's Mouth: Goethe's Translation of His Father's Italian
Diaries"


13. Italian Influences in French, German and English Literatures
Thurs. 10-11:15
Organizer and Chair: Carla E. Lucente, Duquesne University

Norma Bouchard, The University of Connecticut-Storrs: "Beckett:
Reader of Leopardi"

Sabina Gola, Universit‚ Libre de Bruxelles: "I Malavoglia e The
Grapes of Wrath, ovvero la famiglia e le sue leggi"

Roberta Orlandini, University of Puerto Rico: "Italy and the
United States: A New Chapter in Literary Relations"

Cecilia Novero, Vassar College: "'Everyone Says I Love You':
Images of Italy in Contemporary German Literature"


14. Il Novecento, I Thurs. 10-11:15
Chair:

Patrick Rumble, University of Wisconsin: "The CINES Screenplays
of Carlo Levi"

Joy Ramirez, University of Colorado: "Writing as 'Poetic
Freedom': Tracing the Political in Carlo Levi's Cristo se Š
fermato a Eboli"

Marco Codeb•, UCLA: "A partire dai Narratori delle pianure: un
percorso intertestuale e interpretativo"


THURS. 15 APRIL 11:30-12:45: Sessions

15. Boccaccio in rapporto con altri scrittori, I Thurs. 11:30-
12:45
Organizer and Chair: Janet Smarr, Univ. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

Simone Marchesi, Princeton University: "Il manoscritto parigino
Francese 1386: una fonte per Lisabetta da Messina"

Eleanora Stoppino, University of Oregon: "Boccaccio and Courtly
Love: The Legend of the 'Eaten Heart' in Day Four of the
Decameron"

Roberta Morosini, McGill University: "Boccaccio, Domenico Rea e
il vocio di Partenope"



16. Baroque Horizons, I Thurs. 11:30-12:45
Organizer and Chair: David Castillo, University of Oregon

Chiara Frenquellucci, Loyola Marymount University: "From La
Mancha to Siena: Girolamo Gigli's Don Chisciotte"

Nancy D'Antuono, Saint Mary's College: "Calderon a la italiana:
El hijo del Sol, Faeton en la corte virreinal de Napoles en 1685"

Marcella Salvi, University of Oregon: "El metateatro en Lo
fingido verdadero de Lope y Le due comedie in comedia de
Andreini"


17. Kiss and Tell: Narrative Strategies in Giacomo Casanova's
Histoire de ma vie Thurs. 11:30-12:45
Organizer: Ted Emery, Dickinson College
Chair: Tullio Pagano Dickinson College

Tom Vitelli, Editor, L'Intermidiaire des Casanovistes: "Putting
Us On: Humor and Hyperbole in the Histoire de ma vie"

Ted Emery, Dickinson College: "Group Sex: Public and Private
'Readers' in Casanova's Histoire de ma vie"

David Beneteau, Seton Hall University: "Casanova e Da Ponte"


18. Giacomo Leopardi per il prossimo millennio, I Thurs. 11:30-
12:45
Organizer: Irene-Marchegiani Jones (California State University,
Long Beach)
Chair: Irene-Marchegiani Jones

Antonio Pagliaro, La Trobe University, Melbourne: "Aspasia Who or
What?"

Carmen Mayer-Robin, University of Oregon: "Tradition and
Innovation in Nineteenth-Century Wine Symbolism: Leopardi and
Baudelaire"

Giovanna Fogli, Irvine, California: "'Il poeta padrone della
fantasia'. L'illusione leopardiana tra ragione e immaginazione" 


19. Glossolalias: The Tradition of Polylinguism in Italian
Literature, II Thurs. 11:30-12:45
Organizers: Massimo Scalabrini, University of Washington and
Davide Stimilli, Northwestern University
Chair: Davide Stimilli, Northwestern University

Andrea Ciccarelli, Indiana University: "Manzoni e il linguaggio
del sacro"

Massimo Scalabrini, University of Washington: "Tommaseo, Gadda,
Pasolini: un sapore deliziosamente misto"

Ernesto Livorni, Yale University: "La voce e la pluralit… del
mondo nella poesia di Mario Luzi"

Francesca O. Galante, University of Wisconsin: "Sorrisi (di
ignoti
marinai) e parole che non scrivono la Storia"


20. Literary Translation, II Thurs. 11:30-12:45
Organizer: Rosanna Masiola Rosini, Universit… Italiana per
Stranieri, Perugia
Chair: Anthony Mortimer, Universities of Freiburg and Geneva

Anna Comodi, Universit… Italiana per Stranieri, Perugia: "La
traduzione da e verso l'italiano come L2"

Rosanna Masiola Rosini, Universit… Italiana per Stranieri,
Perugia: "Le streghe di Macbeth: una traduzione 'drammatica'" 

Stefania Taviano, University of Warwick: "Translating Italian
Drama: Adapting, 'Versionizing,' or What?"


21. Il cinema della Prima Repubblica (1946-1996), I Thurs. 11:30-
12:45 
Organizer and Chair: Carlo Testa, University of British Columbia

Andrea Ricci, Indiana University: "'Happy Country': la
sceneggiatura di Fellini e Pinelli mai realizzata in pellicola"

Ben Lawton, Purdue University: "Reviewing Fascism from Rome Open
City to Sal•"

Carlo Testa, University of British Columbia: "Pasternak, David
Lean and Moretti: Italian Communists and the Wrong Revolution
(Palombella rossa)"




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Eugene OR 97403-1233
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