Joseph Luzzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 528987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Luzzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Luzzi |
| SIGNATURE | LUZZI J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination. The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the world’s university” (Goethe) and mother of arts” (Byron), the influ…
Verbal Montage and Visual Apostrophe
This essay explores how a technique indelibly associated with film, montage, finds a literary mode of expression and how the literary figure of the apostrophe achieves cinematic form. I show how Andrea Zanzotto's Leopardian text "Filò" (1976), written during his collaboration with Federico Fellini on the film Casanova (1976), creates patterns of "verbal montage" that show how poetry can partake of cinematic modes of expression. My subsequent anal…
Introduction
Translation, the Romantic theorist Friedrich Schlegel declared, always loses one aspect of the original: its best part. Ever more visceral, his contemporary Goethe remarked that the translator was like a zealous intermediary who sings the praises of a beautiful, veiled body: his words increase our desire for the hidden original. These remarks suggest the rhetoric of loss, desire, and mediation that has attended translation since antiquity. Whethe…
Italy without Italians
MLN - Volume 117, Number 1, January 2002 (Italian Issue)
Dante's Interpretive Journey
Italy without Italians
MLN - Volume 117, Number 1, January 2002 (Italian Issue)
Dante's Interpretive Journey
Italy without Italians
MLN - Volume 117, Number 1, January 2002 (Italian Issue)
Introduction
Translation, the Romantic theorist Friedrich Schlegel declared, always loses one aspect of the original: its best part. Ever more visceral, his contemporary Goethe remarked that the translator was like a zealous intermediary who sings the praises of a beautiful, veiled body: his words increase our desire for the hidden original. These remarks suggest the rhetoric of loss, desire, and mediation that has attended translation since antiquity. Whethe…
Verbal Montage and Visual Apostrophe
This essay explores how a technique indelibly associated with film, montage, finds a literary mode of expression and how the literary figure of the apostrophe achieves cinematic form. I show how Andrea Zanzotto's Leopardian text "Filò" (1976), written during his collaboration with Federico Fellini on the film Casanova (1976), creates patterns of "verbal montage" that show how poetry can partake of cinematic modes of expression. My subsequent anal…
Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination. The themes of the book include the emergence of Italy as the world’s university” (Goethe) and mother of arts” (Byron), the influ…
Art (5 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Romance (3 works) · History (2 works) · Italian Literature and Culture (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)