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  • Gender, Writing, Spectatorships

    Evenings at the Theatre, Opera, and Silent Screen in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy and Beyond

    by Katharine Mitchell ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings and journalism – as well as an impressive range of canonical texts, it brings together detailed ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890

    Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture

    by Roberto Risso, Cristina Gragnani, Katharine Mitchell, Fabio Camilletti, Adriana Chemello, Maria Grazia Lolla, Federico Casari, Martina Piperno, Giacomo Mannironi, Fabio Finotti, Giulia Brian, Ombretta Frau, Paola Giuli, Olivia Santovetti ...
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    The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help manual, theatrical improvisation – develop in response to new practices and technologies of production ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Italian Women Writers

    Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910

    by Katharine Mitchell ...
    Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to education and professions for women, particularly in urban areas. Although there was still widespread illiteracy, especially among women in both rural and urban areas, there emerged a generation of women writers whose domestic fiction and journalism ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Siena

    City of Secrets

    by Jane Tylus ...
    Jane Tylus's Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys of a town both medieval and modern.As Tylus leads us through the city, she shares her passion for ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let's Explore Italy (Most Famous Attractions in Italy)

    Italy Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    Italia - the land of pizza and pasta. But do you know that there's more this delightful place than all the delicious food? This picture book features the must-see places in Italy. It defines great activities that you can do and what to expect the moment you arrive. Picture books are essential in encouraging participation, which is the foundation of active and effective learning. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film

    by Barbara Alfano ...
    The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Landscapes in Between

    Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film

    by Monica Seger ...
    Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes in Between analyses authors and filmmakers – Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gianni Celati, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Unpolitical

    On the Radical Critique of Political Reason

    by Massimo Cacciari ...
    Translated by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

    A Bloody Journey

    by Barbara Pezzotti ...
    By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Giorgio Scerbanenco

    Urban Space, Violence and Gender Identity in Post-War Italian Crime Fiction

    by Marco Paoli ...
    Series Book 8 - Moving Texts / Testi mobili
    The works of Giorgio Scerbanenco repeatedly articulate and explore the implications of new forms of criminality that emerged in Italy’s post-war transformation towards its «economic miracle». An indepth analysis of Scerbanenco’s Duca Lamberti series constitutes the critical focus of this study, and in particular the psychological resonances of the role played by the author’s controversial ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Enlightening Encounters

    Photography in Italian Literature

    Edited by Nancy Pedri, Giorgia Alu ...
    Enlightening Encounters traces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day. Investigating the ways in which Italian literature has responded to photographic practice and aesthetics, the contributors use a wide range of theoretical perspectives to examine a variety of canonical and non-canonical authors and a broad selection of literary ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

    Life Sentences and Their Geographies

    by Robin Pickering-Iazzi ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary ... Read more

    $35.99 USD