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In questa edizione completamente rinnovata di Letterati editori – a un tempo saggio di storia della cultura letteraria e fortunata incursione teorica nei meccanismi dell'editoria – Alberto Cadioli r……続きを見る

Für Liebhaber von anspruchsvoller Literatur und historischer Satire sind die 'Gespräche des göttlichen Pietro Aretino' ein absolutes Muss. Das Buch bietet nicht nur einen faszinierenden Einblick in ……続きを見る

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, ……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary, transhistorical collection brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative literature to offer new persp……続きを見る

This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the ……続きを見る

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 acro……続きを見る

David Dean Brockman connects spirituality with psychoanalysis throughout this book as he looks at Dante’s early writings, his life story and his "polysemous" classical poem The Divine Comedy. Dante ……続きを見る

Más que una extraña singularidad atribuida al catolicismo, el Purgatorio –el "tercer estado", como lo llamaba Luteroー podría considerarse como una invariante existencial de lo humano, que se aparec……続きを見る

First published in 1972, this book provides an overview of Classicism in literature. After an informative introduction to the term, it explores some of the periods and places in which Classicism has……続きを見る

Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy al……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth centuryーa century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the ……続きを見る

This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of t……続きを見る

Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi’s thought by using those texts conven……続きを見る

Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Off……続きを見る

The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century ultimately had a profound impact on almost every aspect of Shakespeare's late pla……続きを見る

Guardiano della realtà e insieme dell'utopia, anzi guardiano della realtà perché guardiano dell'utopia: questo è Franco Fortini: l'intellettuale ostico, severo, tutto d'un pezzo, che Calvino ritrae ……続きを見る

Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only i……続きを見る

Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Sa……続きを見る

Von Ovid bis Freud, von Canetti bis Deleuze/Guattari – Achim Geisenhanslüke setzt sich mit den seit der Antike überlieferten Figuren der Wolfsmänner auseinander und entwickelt eine Theoriegeschichte……続きを見る

Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Cather……続きを見る

In 'Bilder aus Italien' entführt uns der renommierte Autor Charles Dickens auf eine faszinierende Reise durch das malerische Italien des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit seinem charakteristischen Schreibstil, ……続きを見る

This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), who brought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel by addressing issues of gender, et……続きを見る

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 Ita……続きを見る

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Centu……続きを見る

In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war. Italy’s Republic was born of World War II, its constitution defined by anti-Fascism, its parties sel……続きを見る

Perché un inglese di quattro secoli fa è ancora nostro contemporaneo? Questa guida è un compendio di aiuto alla lettura del teatro shakespeariano che ricostruisce l’orizzonte culturale dell’epoca e ……続きを見る

Qual è la cantica più bella? Come inoltrarsi nel nuovo linguaggio del «Paradiso» dantesco senza perdere la sfida di continuare il viaggio esistenziale intrapreso nelle cantiche precedenti? Davvero l……続きを見る

Quando concepì Dante la stesura della «Commedia»? Davvero gli ultimi tredici canti del «Paradiso» erano andati perduti? Qual era la reale visione politica dell'autore? Chi era Beatrice? Perché il so……続きを見る

Davvero il Purgatorio è un'invenzione medievale, come sosteneva Le Goff? Quali testi letterari prima di Dante descrissero il viaggio nel Purgatorio? Il secondo volume della trilogia di Giovanni Figh……続きを見る