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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

    $48.99 USD

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  • How Dante Can Save Your Life

    The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

    by Rod Dreher ...
    The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems.Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New York Times bestselling memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Dreher found himself ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi

    A Humorist Potrays the Sacred

    by Alan R. Perry ...
    Giovannino Guareschi (1908-1968) was an Italian journalist, humorist, and cartoonist best known for his short stories based on the fictional Catholic priest Don Camillo. In this study, Alan R. Perry explores the Don Camillo stories from the perspective of Christian hermeneutics, a unique approach and the best critical key to unlocking the richness of both the author and his tales.The stories of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Naming the Rose

    Essays on Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

    Edited by M. Thomas Inge ...
    The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions from which it draws: theories of detective fiction, comedy, postmodernism, the apocalypse, semiotics, and literary criticism. The authors from a variety of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Leopard with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, which tells the story of the Salina family and their changing place in Sicilian society. The novel presents a sharply critical view of 19th century Sicilian society and, with the help of historical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Navigating Maritime Languages and Narratives

    New Perspectives in English and French

    Edited by Raffaella Antinucci, Maria Giovanna Petrillo ...
    The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. It focuses on the linguistic, literary and cultural exploration of the sea, considering new directions for research in the vast domain of «thalassology». Structured into two sections, which reflect its two main areas of enquiry (terminological and literary) and cultural standpoints ... Read more

    $90.29 USD

  • Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

    Volume 2

    by George Corbett, Heather Webb ...
    Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity

    Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity

    by Maria Truglio ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept of recapitulation, which held that ontogeny (the individual’s development) repeats phylogeny (the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Entrenchment of the «unus alterum» Pattern

    Four Essays on Latin and Old Romance Reciprocal Constructions

    by Mikołaj Nkollo ...
    Series Book 49 - Lodz Studies in Language
    In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique solutions, with grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Forces of Ambiguity

    Life, Death, Disease and Eros in Thomas Mann’s «Der Zauberberg»

    by Jessica Macauley ...
    Thomas Mann’s novel Der Zauberberg (1913–1924) illustrates a change in the author’s conceptions of life, death, disease and Eros following World War I. Set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, the novel’s main protagonist, Hans Castorp, comes into contact with three pedagogic figures who each represent a different attitude towards these themes. The humanist Settembrini, for example, affirms life ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • Writing Beloveds

    Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender

    by Aileen Feng ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Ten Steps

    Critical Inquiries on Leopardi

    Edited by Fabio Camilletti, Paola Cori ...
    Series Book 23 - Italian Modernities
    This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contribution to Western thought has been acclaimed by admirers from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche to Benjamin. A variety of readings, moving between different disciplines and approaches – including film studies, psychoanalysis, and queer theory – shed new light on ... Read more

    $73.99 USD