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  • Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature

    Figures of Subjectivity in Progress

    by Cinzia Sartini Blum ...
    The mobility of women is a central issue in feminist analysis of literary works and historical periods. Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature explores the concept of the journey from feminist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial perspectives, in order to offer an alternative understanding of "moving." Cinzia Sartini Blum examines the new literature of migration in Italian and ... Read more

    $76.39 USD

  • Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I

    by Diego Lazzarich, Cinzia Blum, Michael Syrimis, Antonio Gibelli, Loretta De Franceschi, Allison Scardino Belzer, Steven E. Rowe, Giorgio Bertellini ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
    Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War. It explores Italian socialist pacifism, the role of women during the conflict and a dominant cultural movement, Futurism, whose leader, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, glorified war and enlisted in the fight. Other soldiers created documents about the war that differ from ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • Gramsci, Language, and Translation

    by Giorgio Baratta, Derek Boothman, Lucia Borghese, Francisco F. Buey, Tullio De Mauro, Fabio Frosini, Stefano Gensini, Marcus Green, Peter Ives, Maurizio Lichtner0, Franco Lo Piparo1, Utz Maas2, Luigi Rosiello3, Edoardo Sanguineti4, Anne ShowstackSassoon5, André Tosel6 ...
    Series series Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
    This anthology brings together key articles translated into English for the first time from Italian debates concerning Antonio Gramsci's writings on language and translation as central to his entire social and political thought. It includes recent scholarship by Italian, German and English-speaking scholars providing important contributions to debates concerning culture, language, Marxism, post ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Tuscan Spaces

    Literary Constructions of Space

    by Silvia M. Ross ...
    An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Baroque Visual Rhetoric

    by Vernon Hyde Minor ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, ... Read more

    $76.39 USD

  • After La Dolce Vita

    A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy

    by Alessia Ricciardi ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was a uniquely Italian brand of cultural capital that deliberately avoided any critical questioning of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Dante's Lyric Poetry

    Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'

    Translated by Richard Lansing ...
    by Andrew Frisardi ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Dialogues of Love

    by Leone Ebreo, Rosella Pescatori ...
    Translated by Damian Bacich ...
    First published in Rome in 1535, Leone Ebreo's Dialogues of Love is one of the most important texts of the European Renaissance. Well known in the Italian academies of the sixteenth century, its popularity quickly spread throughout Europe, with numerous reprintings and translations into French, Latin Spanish, and Hebrew. It attracted a diverse audience that included noblemen, courtesans, artists, ... Read more

    $82.09 USD

  • The Drama of the Assimilated Jew

    Giorgio Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara

    by Lucienne Kroha ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His personal experience of this period and its aftermath was fundamental to the creation of his masterwork, the Romanzo ... Read more

    $65.59 USD