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  • Decadent Genealogies

    The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

    by Barbara Spackman ...
    Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body. ... Read more

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  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium

    by Italo Calvino ...
    The celebrated author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities shares his "brilliant, original approach to literature" in these late-career lectures ( San Francisco Chronicle).At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on his Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures to be delivered the following year at Harvard University. The six planned lectures would define the qualities he most valued in ... Read more

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  • 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

    $29.99 USD

  • Translating Style

    A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature

    by Tim Parks ...
    Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of interconnected chapters to analyse translations of the works of D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Arduous Tasks

    Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony

    by Lina N Insana ...
    One of twentieth-century Italy's greatest thinkers, Primo Levi (1919-1987) started reflecting on the Holocaust almost immediately after his return home from the year he survived in Auschwitz. Levi's powerful Holocaust testimonials reveal his preoccupation with processes of translation, in the form of both embedded and book-length renderings of texts relevant to Holocaust survival. In Arduous Tasks ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Sprezzatura

    Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp

    by Paolo D'Angelo ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with no exact equivalent in other languages, sprezzatura: a kind of unaffectedness or nonchalance.In this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The History of Futurism

    The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies

    by Günter Berghaus, Monica Biasiolo, Francesca Bravi, Sascha Bru, Silvia Contarini, Eleonora Conti, Patricia Gaborik, Laura Greco, Kyle Hall, Stefano Magni, Florian Mussgnug, Davide Podavini, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Beatrice Sica, Teresa Spignoli, Dirk Vanden Berghe, Federico Luisetti, Marjorie Perloff, Walter L. Adamson ...
    Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the movement by exploring the history of the movement, the events leading up to the movement, and the lasting impact it has had as well as the ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Pasolini

    The Sacred Flesh

    by Stefania Benini ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini examines his corporeal vision of the sacred, focusing on his immanent interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and the “sacred flesh” of Christ in both Passion and Death as the ... Read more

    $58.99 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

  • Singing Games in Early Modern Italy

    The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi

    by Paul Schleuse ...
    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, ... Read more

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  • The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaud

    by Eric Sellin ...
    Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) conceived and inaugurated the 'Theater of Cruelty,' a dramatic movement that has had a profound influence on the avant-garde theater in Europe and the United States. The movement is exemplified by the Peter Brook production of Marat-Sade. This book, the first to analyze Artaud's theories, their sources, and the extent to which he succeeded in implementing them in his own ... Read more

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  • The Madness of Vision

    On Baroque Aesthetics

    by Christine Buci-Glucksmann ...
    Translated by Dorothy Z. Baker ...
    Series Book 36 - Series in Continental Thought
    Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD