Anna Anselmo | University of Ferrara (original) (raw)
Papers by Anna Anselmo
, jointly organized by the "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara and the Kore Univer... more , jointly organized by the "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara and the Kore University of Enna. The volume collects both essays based on papers delivered at the conference and new contributions. It aims at exploring the connections between food, drink, and culture in Victorian Britain. Victorian eating practices and their symbolism have recently been the object of scholarly attention from a plethora of complementary perspectives: historical reconstructions, for instance, have detailed the increasing availability and variety of foods in the nineteenth century (Broomfield 2007); other studies have focused on class and gender implications in the preparation and consumption of meals (e.g. Day 2007); others, still, have explored the relationships between food, the body, and the construction of identity (e.g. Lupton 1996). While drawing on the wealth of available research, the sixteen essays in the collection, as Costantini writes, aim to delve "into unexplored conceptualizations of transgressive appetites" and to widen "the interpretation of those appetites that have not yet been fully examined" (2021, p. 17), in order to show how transgressive appetites actually slip through the cracks of Victorian societal and cultural mandates. In fact, Parrino states, "what happens at the mouth" reflects and problematizes culture, "the mouth being a separating point, a threshold, between inside and outside, familiar and unfamiliar, normal and abnormal worlds." (2021, p. 258) The volume opens with a reflection on Charles Dickens. Francesca Orestano's erudite "Gastroliterature: Victorian Transgressions and the Dickensian Perspective" serves both as an introduction to the century's notion of alimentary transgression and as a portrayal of such transgression's complex and multiple incarnations. Orestano sifts through multimodal texts-James Gillray's illustrations, Oliver Twist, Catherine Dickens's What Shall We Have for Dinner?, end-of-the-century advertisements, among others-in order to showcase the diversity in Victorian approaches to food consumption. From poverty-induced cannibalism, through ideas of food preservation and degeneration, food-shopping savvy and skillful cookery, to transgressive bodies (either corpulent or excessively thin), Orestano's excellent essay provides a thought-provoking range of transgressive appetites. In "Excessive Appetites: The Craving for Food, Sex and Money in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop", Maria Teresa Chialant examines the intersection of food, sex, and money discourses at the core of the book. She interestingly combines the analysis with a few concluding remarks on What Shall We Have for Dinner?, which, she states, "reveals a lot about Dickens's own dietary predilections, as well as the typical culinary habits of a metropolitan household of the English middleclass (2021, p. 83). Claudia Capancioni's "Cannibalism, Charles Dickens, and Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition" focuses on Dickens's interest in Sir John Franklin's disastrous voyage to the
This article explores the notions of flotsam, jetsam and hybridity in John Keats's poetry in ... more This article explores the notions of flotsam, jetsam and hybridity in John Keats's poetry in order to provide a critical reading informed by posthumanist theories, and, more specifically, Donna Haraway's cyborg. It starts with the metaphor of debris and the linguistic-literary metaphor of texture/textus. It then proceeds to elucidate how Keats deals with flotsam and jetsam in his work. A short overview of the theory of organic unity begins the last section of the article, which focuses on the poet's penchant for hybrid poetic endeavours and envisions some of his work as a metaphorical manifestation of the cyborg myth.
Gray and Goldsmith are here presented as the most eminent Pre-Romantic writers. The book provides... more Gray and Goldsmith are here presented as the most eminent Pre-Romantic writers. The book provides comprehensive introductions to their lives and a selection of their most notable works, duly annotated
This article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse communit... more This article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse community with reference to Muslim religious slaughter. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Muslim Organisations Working Group are observed in their efforts to improve knowledge and awareness of halal slaughter among food and meat industry operators in the UK through the production of ad hoc documents. Firstly, an introduction to halal (etymological, semantic and legal) is provided in order to foreground its relevance as a cultural-religious concept, which must be accommodated within the UK (host) culture. Secondly, two documents are analysed: the Code of Practice for Halal Slaughter and the Guidance Note on Halal Food Issues. The former was drafted by the Muslim Organisations Working Group, it is addressed to meat industry workers and aims at providing standard guidelines for the correct practice of halal slaughter; the latter was drafted by the FSA in order to improve awareness of issues connected to halal slaughter among food law enforcements officers. The analysis will show UK institutions in their commitment to cross-cultural integration and to the popularisation of halal
The essay aims to define the term "solarscape" and map its usage in the field of photov... more The essay aims to define the term "solarscape" and map its usage in the field of photovoltaic energy for the purpose of standardization. "Solarscape" is first analyzed in context and its meaning drawn from specialist texts: the collection of these data forms the basis for a formal definition and for the production of a terminological entry. Secondly, "solarscape" is analyzed as a complex term (a compound noun): its formal characteristics are investigated by closely observing its two component parts, the adjective/noun "solar" and the combining form "-scape"
Nel settembre 1820 Keats lascia Londra a bordo della Maria Crowther. Le fasi del viaggio hanno va... more Nel settembre 1820 Keats lascia Londra a bordo della Maria Crowther. Le fasi del viaggio hanno valore simbolico: il mare é un non-luogo e la Maria Crowther un'eterotopia, "grandi separatori" fra Londra e Roma, passato e presente, vita e morte. Gli echi letterari nelle lettere di Keats e del suo compagno di viaggio, Severn, mostrano che l'esperienza in mare ha una struttura narrativa e può quindi essere paragonata al racconto del Vecchio Marinaio di Coleridge, alla traversata dell'Acheronte nella Divina Commedia, al naufragio nel Don Juan byroniano, e al tumultuoso viaggio per mare di Leigh Hunt (1821-1822).
Altre Modernità Special Issue: Sc[Arti]. Riflessioni sul residuo tra selezione e divergenze, 2020
La Questione Romantica. Naples: Liguori Editore., 2020
C. Francellini, E. Spandri (eds.). ’Twixt Land and Sea: Poetiche dell’isola nelle letterature di lingua inglese. Rome: Artemide, pp. 113-139., 2020
L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, 2019
The Shelley party not only went to La Scala, but also enjoyed a performance at Milan’s only puppe... more The Shelley party not only went to La Scala, but also enjoyed a performance at Milan’s only puppet theatre, Teatro Fiando. This article provides the title of this puppet show and offers evidence of the play-text, one version of which is found in the archives of the world-famous Milan-based puppeteers, the Colla family. Furthermore, the article speculates as to the Shelley
party’s peculiar and considerably specific interest in puppet shows, which is read as a sign of potential awareness of the political import of and critique implicit in them, and especially in the history of the puppet they saw on stage, Gerolamo, as well as evidence of a sustained interest in movement, gesture, and the body.
Margaret Rose, Cristina Paravano and Roberta Situlin (eds.). Shakespeare Personal Trainer. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
G. Angeletti, G. Buonanno and D. Saglia (eds.). Remediating Imagination : Literatures and Cultures in English from the Renaissance to the Postcolonial, pp. 141-148. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2016
C. Diglio and M. Centrella (eds.). Les tissus au fil des mots, pp. 15-30. Paris: Hermann, 2014
Englishes: Letterature Inglesi Contemporanee, pp. 21-40. Roma: Pagine Editore. Anna Anselmo (2012). "Introducing the Solarscape", 2013
M. T. Zanola (ed.). Costruire un glossario: la terminologia dei sistemi fotovoltaici, pp. 115- 127. Milano: Vita e Pensiero., 2012
GLAT - GENOVA 2012 Terminologie : testi, discorsi e modalità di accesso alle conoscenze specialistiche, 2012
This article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse communit... more This article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse community with reference to Muslim religious slaughter. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Muslim Organisations Working Group are observed in their efforts to improve knowledge and awareness of halal slaughter among food and meat industry operators in the UK through the production of ad hoc documents. Firstly, an introduction to halal (etymological, semantic and legal) is provided in order to foreground its relevance as a cultural-religious concept, which must be accommodated within the UK (host) culture. Secondly, two documents are analysed: the Code of Practice for Halal Slaughter and the Guidance Note on Halal Food Issues. The former was drafted by the Muslim Organisations Working Group, it is addressed to meat industry workers and aims at providing standard guidelines for the correct practice of halal slaughter; the latter was drafted by the FSA in order to improve awareness of issues connected to halal slaughter among food law enforcements officers. The analysis will show UK institutions in their commitment to cross-cultural integration and to the popularisation of halal.
Nuova Secondaria, La Scuola, 2012
mensile di cultura, orientamenti educativi, problemi didattico-istituzionali per le scuole del se... more mensile di cultura, orientamenti educativi, problemi didattico-istituzionali per le scuole del secondo ciclo di istruzione e formazione 5 15 gennaio 2012 anno XXIX N uova S econdaria
L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, 2011
La Scuola, 2011
mensile di cultura, orientamenti educativi, problemi didattico-istituzionali per le scuole del se... more mensile di cultura, orientamenti educativi, problemi didattico-istituzionali per le scuole del secondo ciclo di istruzione e formazione 8 15 aprile 2011 anno XXVIII N uova S econdaria POSTE ITALIANE S.p.A. Sped. in A.P. -D.L. 353/2003 (conv. in L. 27/02/04 n. 46) art. 1, comma 1 -DCB BRESCIA Editirice La Scuola 25121 Brescia -Expédition en abonnement postal taxe perçue tassa riscossa L'immagine dello straniero nel mondo antico La storia del calcestruzzo armato Liberalismi veri e falsi a confronto La troppo lunga marcia verso il sistema nazionale di valutazione L'arte italiana del dopoguerra completa il percorso iniziato nel Risorgimento
Books by Anna Anselmo
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016
, jointly organized by the "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara and the Kore Univer... more , jointly organized by the "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara and the Kore University of Enna. The volume collects both essays based on papers delivered at the conference and new contributions. It aims at exploring the connections between food, drink, and culture in Victorian Britain. Victorian eating practices and their symbolism have recently been the object of scholarly attention from a plethora of complementary perspectives: historical reconstructions, for instance, have detailed the increasing availability and variety of foods in the nineteenth century (Broomfield 2007); other studies have focused on class and gender implications in the preparation and consumption of meals (e.g. Day 2007); others, still, have explored the relationships between food, the body, and the construction of identity (e.g. Lupton 1996). While drawing on the wealth of available research, the sixteen essays in the collection, as Costantini writes, aim to delve "into unexplored conceptualizations of transgressive appetites" and to widen "the interpretation of those appetites that have not yet been fully examined" (2021, p. 17), in order to show how transgressive appetites actually slip through the cracks of Victorian societal and cultural mandates. In fact, Parrino states, "what happens at the mouth" reflects and problematizes culture, "the mouth being a separating point, a threshold, between inside and outside, familiar and unfamiliar, normal and abnormal worlds." (2021, p. 258) The volume opens with a reflection on Charles Dickens. Francesca Orestano's erudite "Gastroliterature: Victorian Transgressions and the Dickensian Perspective" serves both as an introduction to the century's notion of alimentary transgression and as a portrayal of such transgression's complex and multiple incarnations. Orestano sifts through multimodal texts-James Gillray's illustrations, Oliver Twist, Catherine Dickens's What Shall We Have for Dinner?, end-of-the-century advertisements, among others-in order to showcase the diversity in Victorian approaches to food consumption. From poverty-induced cannibalism, through ideas of food preservation and degeneration, food-shopping savvy and skillful cookery, to transgressive bodies (either corpulent or excessively thin), Orestano's excellent essay provides a thought-provoking range of transgressive appetites. In "Excessive Appetites: The Craving for Food, Sex and Money in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop", Maria Teresa Chialant examines the intersection of food, sex, and money discourses at the core of the book. She interestingly combines the analysis with a few concluding remarks on What Shall We Have for Dinner?, which, she states, "reveals a lot about Dickens's own dietary predilections, as well as the typical culinary habits of a metropolitan household of the English middleclass (2021, p. 83). Claudia Capancioni's "Cannibalism, Charles Dickens, and Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition" focuses on Dickens's interest in Sir John Franklin's disastrous voyage to the
This article explores the notions of flotsam, jetsam and hybridity in John Keats's poetry in ... more This article explores the notions of flotsam, jetsam and hybridity in John Keats's poetry in order to provide a critical reading informed by posthumanist theories, and, more specifically, Donna Haraway's cyborg. It starts with the metaphor of debris and the linguistic-literary metaphor of texture/textus. It then proceeds to elucidate how Keats deals with flotsam and jetsam in his work. A short overview of the theory of organic unity begins the last section of the article, which focuses on the poet's penchant for hybrid poetic endeavours and envisions some of his work as a metaphorical manifestation of the cyborg myth.
Gray and Goldsmith are here presented as the most eminent Pre-Romantic writers. The book provides... more Gray and Goldsmith are here presented as the most eminent Pre-Romantic writers. The book provides comprehensive introductions to their lives and a selection of their most notable works, duly annotated
This article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse communit... more This article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse community with reference to Muslim religious slaughter. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Muslim Organisations Working Group are observed in their efforts to improve knowledge and awareness of halal slaughter among food and meat industry operators in the UK through the production of ad hoc documents. Firstly, an introduction to halal (etymological, semantic and legal) is provided in order to foreground its relevance as a cultural-religious concept, which must be accommodated within the UK (host) culture. Secondly, two documents are analysed: the Code of Practice for Halal Slaughter and the Guidance Note on Halal Food Issues. The former was drafted by the Muslim Organisations Working Group, it is addressed to meat industry workers and aims at providing standard guidelines for the correct practice of halal slaughter; the latter was drafted by the FSA in order to improve awareness of issues connected to halal slaughter among food law enforcements officers. The analysis will show UK institutions in their commitment to cross-cultural integration and to the popularisation of halal
The essay aims to define the term "solarscape" and map its usage in the field of photov... more The essay aims to define the term "solarscape" and map its usage in the field of photovoltaic energy for the purpose of standardization. "Solarscape" is first analyzed in context and its meaning drawn from specialist texts: the collection of these data forms the basis for a formal definition and for the production of a terminological entry. Secondly, "solarscape" is analyzed as a complex term (a compound noun): its formal characteristics are investigated by closely observing its two component parts, the adjective/noun "solar" and the combining form "-scape"
Nel settembre 1820 Keats lascia Londra a bordo della Maria Crowther. Le fasi del viaggio hanno va... more Nel settembre 1820 Keats lascia Londra a bordo della Maria Crowther. Le fasi del viaggio hanno valore simbolico: il mare é un non-luogo e la Maria Crowther un'eterotopia, "grandi separatori" fra Londra e Roma, passato e presente, vita e morte. Gli echi letterari nelle lettere di Keats e del suo compagno di viaggio, Severn, mostrano che l'esperienza in mare ha una struttura narrativa e può quindi essere paragonata al racconto del Vecchio Marinaio di Coleridge, alla traversata dell'Acheronte nella Divina Commedia, al naufragio nel Don Juan byroniano, e al tumultuoso viaggio per mare di Leigh Hunt (1821-1822).
Altre Modernità Special Issue: Sc[Arti]. Riflessioni sul residuo tra selezione e divergenze, 2020
La Questione Romantica. Naples: Liguori Editore., 2020
C. Francellini, E. Spandri (eds.). ’Twixt Land and Sea: Poetiche dell’isola nelle letterature di lingua inglese. Rome: Artemide, pp. 113-139., 2020
L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, 2019
The Shelley party not only went to La Scala, but also enjoyed a performance at Milan’s only puppe... more The Shelley party not only went to La Scala, but also enjoyed a performance at Milan’s only puppet theatre, Teatro Fiando. This article provides the title of this puppet show and offers evidence of the play-text, one version of which is found in the archives of the world-famous Milan-based puppeteers, the Colla family. Furthermore, the article speculates as to the Shelley
party’s peculiar and considerably specific interest in puppet shows, which is read as a sign of potential awareness of the political import of and critique implicit in them, and especially in the history of the puppet they saw on stage, Gerolamo, as well as evidence of a sustained interest in movement, gesture, and the body.
Margaret Rose, Cristina Paravano and Roberta Situlin (eds.). Shakespeare Personal Trainer. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
G. Angeletti, G. Buonanno and D. Saglia (eds.). Remediating Imagination : Literatures and Cultures in English from the Renaissance to the Postcolonial, pp. 141-148. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2016
C. Diglio and M. Centrella (eds.). Les tissus au fil des mots, pp. 15-30. Paris: Hermann, 2014
Englishes: Letterature Inglesi Contemporanee, pp. 21-40. Roma: Pagine Editore. Anna Anselmo (2012). "Introducing the Solarscape", 2013
M. T. Zanola (ed.). Costruire un glossario: la terminologia dei sistemi fotovoltaici, pp. 115- 127. Milano: Vita e Pensiero., 2012
GLAT - GENOVA 2012 Terminologie : testi, discorsi e modalità di accesso alle conoscenze specialistiche, 2012
This article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse communit... more This article focuses on the interactional dynamics within the UK institutional discourse community with reference to Muslim religious slaughter. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Muslim Organisations Working Group are observed in their efforts to improve knowledge and awareness of halal slaughter among food and meat industry operators in the UK through the production of ad hoc documents. Firstly, an introduction to halal (etymological, semantic and legal) is provided in order to foreground its relevance as a cultural-religious concept, which must be accommodated within the UK (host) culture. Secondly, two documents are analysed: the Code of Practice for Halal Slaughter and the Guidance Note on Halal Food Issues. The former was drafted by the Muslim Organisations Working Group, it is addressed to meat industry workers and aims at providing standard guidelines for the correct practice of halal slaughter; the latter was drafted by the FSA in order to improve awareness of issues connected to halal slaughter among food law enforcements officers. The analysis will show UK institutions in their commitment to cross-cultural integration and to the popularisation of halal.
Nuova Secondaria, La Scuola, 2012
mensile di cultura, orientamenti educativi, problemi didattico-istituzionali per le scuole del se... more mensile di cultura, orientamenti educativi, problemi didattico-istituzionali per le scuole del secondo ciclo di istruzione e formazione 5 15 gennaio 2012 anno XXIX N uova S econdaria
L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, 2011
La Scuola, 2011
mensile di cultura, orientamenti educativi, problemi didattico-istituzionali per le scuole del se... more mensile di cultura, orientamenti educativi, problemi didattico-istituzionali per le scuole del secondo ciclo di istruzione e formazione 8 15 aprile 2011 anno XXVIII N uova S econdaria POSTE ITALIANE S.p.A. Sped. in A.P. -D.L. 353/2003 (conv. in L. 27/02/04 n. 46) art. 1, comma 1 -DCB BRESCIA Editirice La Scuola 25121 Brescia -Expédition en abonnement postal taxe perçue tassa riscossa L'immagine dello straniero nel mondo antico La storia del calcestruzzo armato Liberalismi veri e falsi a confronto La troppo lunga marcia verso il sistema nazionale di valutazione L'arte italiana del dopoguerra completa il percorso iniziato nel Risorgimento
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016
Late Romanticism: Past and Present Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 12-14 December 2019
16th International Conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies University of Notti... more 16th International Conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies
University of Nottingham
25-28 July 2019
Keats and Mythology 1819-2019 British School of Rome 22-23 February 2019
Sc[A]rti Conference University of Milan 7-8 November 2018
Frankenstein, in the Wake of Creation University of Milan 30 October 2018
NASSR Conference Brown University 22-25 June 2018
Keats Foundation Conference Keats House Hampstead 18-20 May 2018
'TWIXT THE LAND AND THE SEA: Poetiche dell'Isola nelle Letterature di Lingua Inglese University o... more 'TWIXT THE LAND AND THE SEA: Poetiche dell'Isola nelle Letterature di Lingua Inglese
University of Siena
16-18 May 2018
L'Arte del Ricordo Conference University of Milan 26-27 October 2017
ALTERITY Conference University of Genoa 28-31 July 2014
AIA Conference: Remediating, Rescripting, Remaking: Old and New Challenges in English Studies Uni... more AIA Conference: Remediating, Rescripting, Remaking: Old and New Challenges in English Studies
University of Parma
12-14 September 2013
13th International Conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies University of South... more 13th International Conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies
University of Southampton
25-28 July 2013
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference California State University 7-9 March 2013
ESSE Conference Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Istanbul 4-8 September 2012
GLAT Conference University of Genoa 14-16 May 2012