sicilianism

Example Sentences

• "Leonardo Sciascia, for example, views the motif of the dissolution of individual identity as an aspect of Pirandello's Sicilianism rather than as a reflection of the vaster Western crisis of identity."
• "2 Isle-solitude, island and solitude, is a much wider concept than Sicilianism, a subjective condition resulting from the Sicilian mental condition. The Sciascian island and the ‘isle-solitude’ that follows from it, considered both with its good and bad connotations (as a port and a refuge), in Sciascia becomes an ideology. See Sciascia, ‘Sicilia e siciltudine’^([sic – meaning sicilitudine]) (Sicily and Sicilianism), La corda pazza (The Crazy Rope), in Opere 1956–1971, pp. 961-8 (p. 963)."
• "1900, J. Rendel Harris, Further Researches into the History of the Ferrar-Group, C. J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press, page 76, In proving or testing for Sicilianism or Ferrarism amongst the MSS. tabulated above, we must be to a large extent dependent upon fresh examinations and further collations. It is, however, interesting to note that in the case of some of the MSS. referred to, including the less accessible of them, the Ferrarism, or the Sicilianism, can be clearly made out."
• "1994, Frede Jensen (editor and translator), Tuscan Poetry of the Duecento: An Anthology, footnote, page 308, 12. dia: is Provençal or a Sicilianism: ogni dia (Notaio, v. 6: Cont I 61) 'every day'."
• "2009 [Pearson Education Ltd], Martin Clark, The Italian Risorgimento, 2nd Edition, 2013, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 23, ‘Sicilianism’ was conservative and aristocratic, but it was a real separatist threat to the weak and remote Bourbon government in Naples."
• "The exception was western Sicily where the ‘Sicilianism’, the desire for a Sicilian statehood, more or less independent, had never subsided."