The Department of French & Italian Student-Faculty Forum Series presents
Naming the Comic Hero: Examples in Italian Renaissance Literature
by Massimo Scalabrini
Friday, February 15,
2008
2:30-3:30 pm
Ballantine Hall 004
Abstract: My paper will focus on the names of several comic characters in diverse genres such as the novella, the comedia, the satire. I will examine several cases of comic heroes whose names are expanded or contracted, modified or altogether changed. I will 1) analyze a number of contexts in which name-changing occurs, 2) investigate the historical and literary origins of name-changing, and 3) consider the inherently comic nature of this phenomenon.
About the Speaker: Massimo Scalabrini is Associate Professor of Italian in the Department of French & Italian at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is the author of L'incarnazione del macaronico: Percorsi nel comico folenghiano (Bologna: il Mulino, 2003) and many articles on the macaronic, picaresque, and humanistic traditions. Professor Scalabrini has received multiple awards including the Trustees Teaching Award (2002), the James Phillip Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching (2003) and the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2004-2005).
The presentation will be followed by discussion and refreshments.
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