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Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siecle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study with an overview...

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 self-identified with national Resistance. Because of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498065115Author Oscar KuhnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498030892Author Dante Gabriel RossettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 435g

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Beckett’s dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenheim 2000; Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839987441Author Alan WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

In this keen examination of Alfredo de Palchi’s lyrical oeuvre, Giorgio Linguaglossa refers to de Palchi as the missing link in Italian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. From page one of this study, de Palchi’s voice is in constant...

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This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian modernist. The volume re-examines...

Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati's 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River's Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288029Author George CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This volume offers a complete survey and bibliography of Italian literature from 1827 to 1930, giving its three stages of development: historical, naturalistic, reflective.Book InformationISBN 9781512808315Author Domenico VittoriniFormat HardbackPage...

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Elena Ferrante--named one of the 100 most influential people in 2016 by Time magazine--is best known for her Neapolitan novels, which explore such themes as the complexity of female friendship; the joys and constraints of motherhood; the impact of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692794135Author Jo Ann CavalloFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Annali D'Italianistica, Inc.Publisher Annali D'Italianistica, Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250013965Author A N WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379568Author J Heli HernandezFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379728Author Oscar BonifazFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379308Author Giacomo A StriuliFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 290g

Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of the New Italian Epic, as it has been coined by some of its proponents, can be found in the widespread...

Volume 164 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891643Author Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

Using W. Von Wartburg's critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work is a complete bibliography of Italian dialect dictionaries that had appeared at the time of its publication.Book InformationISBN 9780807890011Author Alberto...

In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy-who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947623708Author C E HonessFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is one of the preeminent figures of the modern European theater. His masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, set loose a riot during its first performance in Rome in 1921. This play about six...

Volume 188 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891889Author Nicholas PatrunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

This commemorative volume is a collection of essays whose subjects range from the structure of the Divine Comedy to detailed studies of Dante's influence, language, and thought.Book InformationISBN 9780807890585Author Gino RizzoFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Contents: Pregnanza di significati e carattere della Vita Nuova; Vide cor tuum; Simulacra; Ego tanquam; Considerazioni sullo svolgimento di Amore nei capitoli XIII-XVIII della Vita Nuova e sul significato d'ispirazione poetica con riferimento al canto...

This morphological study is designed to show the transformation from Latin verbs into the Old and Modern Italian verbal system. The work is inspired by the methods of traditional, historical philology, and its intent is largely pedagogical.Book...

Kozma examines the use of metaphor and simile in the works of the twentieth-century Italian fiction writer Alberto Moravia, whose novels include Gli indiferenti (1929) and La Romana (1947). She provides a comprehensive description of types of imagery in...

Alfonso Hordognez was the first translator of the Spanish classic Celestina. The antiquity and accuracy of his translation make it an important research tool, particularly in the effort to establish a critical edition of the classic. Kish has utilized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103761Author Cinzia Sartini BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Art of Objects is a cultural history of early Italian industrialism, set against the political, social, and intellectual background of post-unification Italy, and a cutting-edge investigation of the formation of Italy's industrial culture at the turn...

The question about the first Americans' New World roots is seldom given attention, although there have been approaches to finding answers. These initiatives were neglected due to the dominance of ideas of external origins. In 1493 all lands west of the...

The essays on Dante collected in this volume interpret his Commedia as the attempt of a renewal of the Christian work of salvation by means of literature. In the view of his author, the sacro poema responds to a historical moment of extreme danger, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839987649Author Jo Ann CavalloFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula provides a microhistory of life in a Southern Italian province in the decade following Unification and of Vincenzo Padula, who wrote single-handedly from March 1864 to July 1865 - a period when pro-Bourbon...

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity-individual and national-and belonging. Also, it is an affirmation of diversity. Its editors have brought together articles by scholars analyzing the literature of...