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Davide Benini

Publications and press articles

Published articles and interviews

  • “Il Fairy Tale irlandese: racconto orale e paradigma di realtà”. Accepted for pubblication in a forthcoming volume about fantastic literature, Verona, Edizioni Fiorini.
  • “Céilíng Across the Atlantic: the American Pedigree of Irish Traditional Music”, accepted for pubblication in Culture e letterature dei paesi di lingua inglese: il contributo degli irlandesi ‘at Home and in The Scattering’, Università degli Studi di Lecce.
  • “Ciaran Carson’s constellations of ideas: theories on traditional culture from within” in ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, n. 8, June 2006, pp. 117–128. Translated into Italian as “Le costellazioni di significato di Ciaran Carson: teorie sulla cultura
    tradizionale dall’interno”, accepted for pubblication in Quaderni di Lingue e Letterature, 31/2006, Università degli Studi di Verona.
  • “‘The most delicate and evanescent moments’: le epifanie di James Joyce” in Forme Brevi, Frammenti, Intarsi, Verona, Edizioni Fiorini, 2006, pp. 195-211.
  • “Comedy, Tragedy, Empathy, Jokes: an interview to Patrick McCabe”
    in Il Tolomeo, Venezia, 2003, pp. 119-120.

Reviews

  • “Gary Hastings, With Fife and Drums; Fintan Vallely and Charlie piggot, Blooming Meadows – The World of Irish Traditional Music” (double review) in Il Tolomeo, Venezia, 2004, pp. 111-113.
  • “Patrick McCabe, Call Me The Breeze” in Il Tolomeo, Venezia, 2004, pp. 114-115.
  • “Jennifer Johnston, This is not a Novel ” in Il Tolomeo, Venezia, 2003, pp. 15-17.

Press articles

  • “Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy” (review), in Keltica, n.72, March 2004, p. 41, Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan), New Sounds 2000.
  • “James Joyce e l’Irlanda” in Keltica, n. 68, November 2003, pp. 30-33, Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan), New Sounds 2000.

Literary translations

  • “Il divertimento della notte scorsa” from Ciaran Carson’s Last Night’s Fun, translation and notes, in Keltica, n. 96, March 2006, pp. 34-37,
    Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan), EmmeK editore.

Unpublished presentations

  • “Remembering ar an sean nós: James Joyce’s memory and the Irish oral tradition”, First Galway Conference of Irish Studies, National
    University of Ireland, Galway, 7-10 June 2006. The paper has been submitted for publication in the forthcoming proceedings.

  • “‘The deeper I got into the inferno, the more I walked’: An Analysis of Carson’s Translation of Dante’s The Inferno”, IASIL 2005, Charles
    University, Prague, 25-28 July 2005.

  • “Voices of Loneliness: the Influence of James Joyce on the Work of Patrick McCabe”, IASIL 2004, National University of Ireland, Galway, 20-23 July 2004.

  • “La musica tradizionale irlandese”, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Vercelli, 20 May 2004.

  • “Rappresentare la tradizione: Ciaran Carson e il mondo della musica irlandese”, Narrazione e Improvvisazione fra Oralità e Scrittura, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, 24-26 November 2003.