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“simona storchi”

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  • Annie Chartres Vivanti

    Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture

    by Sabrina Cavallucci, Sara Ceroni, Chiara Chini, Ombretta Frau, Cristina Gragnani, Filippo Fonio, Ursula Fanning, Marianna Deganutti, Julie Dashwood, Noemi Crain-Merz, Stephen Gundle, Mariarosa Mettifogo, Enrico Minardi, Giulia Pezzuolo, Lisa Sarti, Simona Storchi, Anne Urbancic ...
    This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), whobrought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel byaddressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and internationallevels, and by creating work that distanced itself from much of the female-penned literature ofthe day, scorning both decorum and social respectability. ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Back to the Futurists

    The avant-garde and its legacy

    Edited by Elza Adamowicz, Simona Storchi ...
    In 1909 the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Founding Manifesto of Futurism was published on the front page of Le Figaro. Between 1909 and 1912 the Futurists published over thirty manifestos, celebrating speed and danger, glorifying war and technology, and advocating political and artistic revolution. This collection of essays aims to reassess the activities of the Italian Futurist ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    From Here to Eternity

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    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Read more

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  • Experiences in Translation

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by Alastair McEwen ...
    Series series Emilio Goggio Publications Series
    In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco is also the translator of Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie and Raymond Queneau's Exercices de style from French into Italian. In Experiences in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Reading Dante

    by Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta ...
    Series series The Open Yale Courses Series
    A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works.Based on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale ... Read more

    $20.49 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

  • Boccaccio's Naked Muse

    Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination

    by Tobias Foster Gittes ...
    Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed beneath this striking diversity of subject and genre there is a coherent mythology, a virtual catalogue of innovative myths ... Read more

    $65.99 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

  • A Croce Reader

    Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism

    Edited by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    Benedetto Crocewas a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century.A Croce Reader brings together the author’s most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents the “other” Croce that has been erased by scholarly tradition, including by Croce himself. Massimo ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Pleasant Nights - Volume 2

    Edited by Don Beecher ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature ... Read more

    $89.29 USD

  • Battleground Bodies

    Gender and Sexuality in Mozambican Literature

    by Eleanor Jones ...
    Series Book 7 - Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
    This is the first book to provide a comparative exploration of the gendered and sexual body in Mozambican literature, engaging with the work of six authors spanning different generations, styles and aesthetics. The study begins by providing a detailed and innovative survey of the dynamics of gender, sexuality and power in the Portuguese colonial and Mozambican post-independence contexts, from the ... Read more

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  • The Arthur of the Italians

    The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture

    by F. Regina Psaki, Gloria Allaire ...
    Series series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
    This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse ... Read more

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