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August 12, 2014
Academic Freedom - Illusions and Hypocrisy … America vs. Italy
Socrates Paid the Ultimate Price for Genuine Academic Freedom
I cringe when I hear: “The Founding Fathers”. This cliché is cited to justify all types of moral, political and legal judgments. The problem is the Founding Fathers’...
July 22, 2014
Italian-American Intellectuals … Immigrant Working-Class Revolutionaries vs. Bourgeois Progeny …What Difference a War Makes!
The epitaph carve on the tomb of Tina Modotti reads in part: “…steel and wire combined with snow and pollen to make up your firm and delicate being.” /// /// The combination...
July 2, 2014
“The Sea-God’s Herb - Essays & Criticism 1975-2014” … A Song of Post-Modernism
When I first saw the “Italian American Writers Association” (IAWA) notice of “The Sea-God’s Herb – Essays & Criticism” by John Domini, my first thought was: “I...
June 20, 2014
Menighetti & Nicastro’s “History of Autonomous Sicily (1947-2001)” … Sicily’s Tragic Flaw?
“History of Autonomous Sicily (1947-2001)” … First, profound appreciation to translator Gaetano Cipolla; inter-cultural studies are carried on the backs of highly...
May 24, 2014
“Extra Virginity – The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil” … Implications for Southern-Italian American Cultural History
No doubt this book is of great interest to culinary aficionados; but it is NOT a ‘food book’!
May 1, 2014
Lentricchia’s “The Sadness of Antonioni” –A Segue Novel from High-Brow “Italian Actress” to Pop-Gangster “Eliot Conte Mysteries”
Just as Lentricchia’s recently published “The Dog Killer of Utica” is the second in the Eliot Conte pop-crime series following “Accidental Pallbearer”, critical reading...
April 22, 2014
Frank Lentricchia’s “The Italian Actress” – The Neurotic Creative Italian American
The high-brow literary character of “The Italian Actress” would not appeal to the vast majority of southern-Italian Americans who have not studied college (indeed graduate)...
April 3, 2014
Venice Independence Referendum – Predicable! … ‘South of Rome’ Implications per Silvana Patriarca’s “Numbers and Nationhood”
Gabriel Bouys / AFP - Gettu Images
In the March 2014 “Venice Independence Referendum”, the majority of Venetians (2.1 million, 89 % of voters, out of an electorate of 2.3 million) voted that they “want the...
March 15, 2014
“Crimes of Art + Terror”… “Magister Ludi” Frank Lentricchia’s last “Glass Bead Game”? … Here’s Hope’n
“The Magister Ludi gradually came to doubt that the intellectually gifted have a right to withdraw from life's big problems. Knecht comes to see Castalia as a kind of Ivory...
February 20, 2014
Modern Capitalist Concepts of Agricultural Theory and Practices … First Risorgimento Origins – South of Rome 2nd Century B.C.
The ancient history of Italy, South of Rome, may reasonably be divided into two periods: first from circa 750 B.C., with the arrival of the Greeks and Phoenicians, down to 201 B.C..
January 30, 2014
“Trinacria” – At Long Last! … A Southern-Italian American (Pre-Ellis Island) Historic Novel … and High-Brow Literature ‘To Boot’
This blog has persistently and repeatedly documented the FACT that the pre-Ellis Island history and culture of near seventeen million Americans of southern-Italian decent is...
January 15, 2014
Dino De Laurentiis Movie “Chino” – A Cowboy ‘Goat-Song’ (Aristotle Would Love It!) … An Exercise in Cultural Archeology
John Domini, in his brilliant novel “A Tomb on the Periphery" (see: Related Articles box #2) and again in a “Magna Grece” interview, consistent with Lampedusa’s theme...
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