Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito Recent documents in Maurizio Vito en-us Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:06:35 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/24 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/24 Sun, 24 May 2009 16:48:25 PDT Maurizio Vito Dissertation http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/23 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/23 Sun, 24 May 2009 16:41:01 PDT Maurizio Vito Dissertation http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/22 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/22 Sun, 24 May 2009 16:39:46 PDT Maurizio Vito Dissertation http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/21 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/21 Sun, 24 May 2009 16:34:42 PDT My dissertation analyzes the political unconscious of the metaphors of sea and land in works that range from Hesiod to Carl Schmitt, it is a study of how these metaphors, singly and in the interplay between them, are scattered through a wide variety of discourses. It examines the influence that cultural contexts exert on the allegorization of sea and land from ancient Greeks and Romans (Alcaeus, Virgil, Horace, first chapter) to the Italian Renaissance epic (Orlando Furioso and Gerusalemme Liberata, second chapter), and in the "Mediterranean question." While the third chapter analyzes how nomos - a notion that concerns lawmaking authority and land-appropriation - defines "order and orientation" of the earth in Schmitt's world order and philosophy, the last chapter underlines how spatial categories continue to shape Mediterranean imaginary and thinking today. An expression of hegemonic discursive power, the nomos entails a scenario in which metaphors of sea and land embody a rhetoric of conflict throughout Western culture. Maurizio Vito Dissertation http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/20 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/20 Tue, 05 May 2009 20:18:33 PDT Maurizio Vito Italian Literature http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/18 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/18 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:08:34 PDT Chapter from my Italian Thesis "Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoria e Politicita' del Narrare" Maurizio Vito Thesis http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/17 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/17 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:14:56 PDT Chapter from my Italian Thesis "Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoria e Politicita' del Narrare" Maurizio Vito Thesis http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/16 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/16 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:29:16 PDT Maurizio Vito Presentations http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/15 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/15 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:07:03 PDT Maurizio Vito Presentations http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/14 http://works.bepress.com/maurizio_vito/14 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:57:33 PDT Maurizio Vito Presentations