Theses - Italian
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'A me stesso di me pietate vène.' Lyric Subjectivity in Guido Cavalcanti's Rime
This thesis examines articulations of subjectivity in the love-lyric corpus of Guido Cavalcanti (c.1258-1300). That Cavalcanti has a central role in the development of the modern lyric subjectivity is widely accepted in ... -
Rhythmical Figures in Dante’s Commedia: A Study of Memory and Composition after Gianfranco Contini
This thesis takes Contini’s 1965 study ‘Un’interpretazione di Dante’, and its discussion of repeated lines and part-lines, as its point of departure in order to pursue new understanding of the compositional processes of ... -
Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
(2020-05-16)My thesis examines the sociolinguistic notion of prestige in the context of sixteenth-century Italy, with reference to the dynamics which arose between Tuscans and non-Tuscan learners over the ownership and nature of the ... -
Reflexes of Finiteness in Romance
(2020-04-25)This dissertation investigates the concept of finiteness across Romance, a theoretical notion very frequently used within linguistics although still poorly understood (Ledgeway 2007:335). Various Romance verb forms and ...
