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  • The Periodical Life of Modernity

    Sonzogno’s First Century (1804–1909)

    by Silvia Valisa ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    The Milan-based publishing firm Sonzogno was an essential yet historically overlooked cultural player in nineteenth-century Italy. Positioning Sonzogno as both exceptional in its commercial success and emblematic of an entire cultural landscape, The Periodical Life of Modernity　investigates the emergence of modern print culture in Italy and underscores the significance of periodicity as a key lens ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel

    by Silvia Valisa ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi (1827) to Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli (1982).Silvia Valisa’s ... Read more

    $58.39 USD

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    Series Book 60 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration. This first book-length study of critically acclaimed novelist Patricia A. McKillip's lyrical other-worlds analyzes her characters, environments and legends and their interplay with genre expectations. The author gives long overdue critical attention to McKillip's ... Read more

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  • Corporeal Bonds

    The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Writing

    by Patrizia Sambuco ...
    The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante, each of which is narrated from the daughter’s point of view and depicts the daughter’s bond ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Kulturbegegnung und Kulturkonflikt im (post-)kolonialen Kriminalroman

    Edited by Michaela Holdenried, Barbara Korte, Carlotta von Maltzan ...
    Series Book 128 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik - Reihe A
    Kriminalliteratur bietet seit längerem ein Forum für die Behandlung schon ‚klassischer‘ postkolonialer Themen. So lassen sich die ProtagonistInnen vielfach als hybride Subjekte beschreiben, und die Suche nach ‚historischer Wahrheit‘ bedarf einer anderen Substruktion als der einfachen Antithetik von Gut und Böse. Darüber hinaus sind die im Verschwinden begriffenen ehemals klar getrennten kolonialen ... Read more

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  • The Physiognomical Discourse and European Theatre

    Theory, Performance, Dramatic Text

    by Maria-Christina Mur ...
    Series Book 23 - Interkulturelle Begegnungen. Studien zum Literatur- und Kulturtransfer
    The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the concept that Physiognomy refers to particular signs on the face, it looks for evidence of a knowledge and awareness of this pseudo ... Read more

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  • Inter-American Literary History

    Six Critical Periods

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series Book 11 - Interamericana
    Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.As a contribution to this field, this book brings together the literatures and literary histories of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish America, the ... Read more

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  • The Language of Polish Modernism

    by Ryszard Nycz ...
    Translated by Tul’si Bhambry ...
    Series Book 49 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs their ... Read more

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  • The Production of Subjectivity in «The Diamond Age» by Neal Stephenson

    by Sarah Jonckheere ...
    Series Book 9 - Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism / Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus
    The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. The author of this book analyses the ethnocultural, technological, and ideological skeins that make up the biopolitical production of the self. The coming-of-age novel «The Diamond Age» reflects the processes surrounding the emergence of conscience. Through his inspired recycling of cultural ... Read more

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  • Tradition and Innovation in Language and Linguistics

    A Coserian Perspective

    by Cristinel Munteanu ...
    Series Book 19 - Romanistische Arbeiten interkulturell und interdisziplinaer
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  • Cross-Cultural Affinities

    Emersonian Transcendentalism and Senghorian Negritude

    by Manyaka Toko Djockoua ...
    Series Book 48 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    The book, through textual analyses, brings concepts of Senghorian Negritude and Emersonian ideas into a cross-cultural dialogue, and thus opens up a completely new perspective in research on the history of ideas. It synthesizes the diverse cultural, literary, philosophical and religious trends which have impacted on the complex and elusive fields of Transcendentalism and Negritude. Focusing on the ... Read more

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  • The Sword and the Pen

    Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena

    by Konrad Eisenbichler ...
    In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the sixteenth century up to the fall of Siena in 1555. Eisenbichler sets forth a complex and original interpretation of the experiences of these three ... Read more

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