Virginia Picchietti
Biographic Data
| ID | 5767918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Picchietti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Picchietti |
| SIGNATURE | PICCHIETTI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Scranton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing the Shoah for Young Readers
In this paper, I examine the strategies that Lia Levi implements in her 1997 children’s novel, Una valle piena di stelle, to depict a tale of persecution in the Italian Shoah. I argue that Levi’s main goal in the novel, whose target audience is adolescents, is to evince the dangerous consequences of state-sanctioned persecution and to guide her readers’ formation as ethical citizens. Levi’s narrative creates an affinity between child protagonist …
Relational Spaces. Daughterhood, Motherhood, and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini's Writings and Films
Crossing the Line
As a medium that produces both a visual and spoken interpretation of elements of social identity, cinema proffers an instructive look at a culture's reaction to challenges to the gender conventions that define it. Alessandro Blasetti's La corona di ferro (1941), Bernardo Bertolucci's Il conformista (1970), and Lina Wertmuller's Sotto ... Sotto ... Strapazzato d'anomala passione (1984) reveal what can occur when individuals step outside the strict…
Dacia Maraini and the Written Dream of Women in Italian Literature
Writing the Shoah for Young Readers
In this paper, I examine the strategies that Lia Levi implements in her 1997 children’s novel, Una valle piena di stelle, to depict a tale of persecution in the Italian Shoah. I argue that Levi’s main goal in the novel, whose target audience is adolescents, is to evince the dangerous consequences of state-sanctioned persecution and to guide her readers’ formation as ethical citizens. Levi’s narrative creates an affinity between child protagonist …
Dacia Maraini and the Written Dream of Women in Italian Literature
Relational Spaces. Daughterhood, Motherhood, and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini's Writings and Films
Crossing the Line
As a medium that produces both a visual and spoken interpretation of elements of social identity, cinema proffers an instructive look at a culture's reaction to challenges to the gender conventions that define it. Alessandro Blasetti's La corona di ferro (1941), Bernardo Bertolucci's Il conformista (1970), and Lina Wertmuller's Sotto ... Sotto ... Strapazzato d'anomala passione (1984) reveal what can occur when individuals step outside the strict…
Writing the Shoah for Young Readers
In this paper, I examine the strategies that Lia Levi implements in her 1997 children’s novel, Una valle piena di stelle, to depict a tale of persecution in the Italian Shoah. I argue that Levi’s main goal in the novel, whose target audience is adolescents, is to evince the dangerous consequences of state-sanctioned persecution and to guide her readers’ formation as ethical citizens. Levi’s narrative creates an affinity between child protagonist …
Art (4 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Italian Literature and Culture (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)