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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788822269430Author Giovanna MuranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Casa Editrice Leo S.OlschkiPublisher Casa Editrice Leo S.OlschkiWeight(grams) 3284g

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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 Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362997067Author J Jacques PorchatPage Count 94Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362518309Author de Cancarnaux PlattPage Count 374Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362995124Author Charles NodierPage Count 112Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Dante and Petrarch are two of the world's greatest love poets who convey the story of their emotional, intellectual, and religious life in part through a story of human love. The focus here is not so much on the myriad symbolic values and associations of...

This book of essays explores the notion of Italian identity in a wide range of forms, including linguistic identity and unifying concepts evident in Dante's Commedia, environmental studies and issues related to gender and sexuality viewed through the...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Italian playwrights rediscovered and recast an old art form-the ancient Latin comedy-to create witty, ribald, and intricately plotted plays that delighted Renaissance audiences with their clever reversals of gender...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186830130Author J.A. HammertonFormat HardbackPage Count 406Imprint Deep & Deep PublicationsPublisher Deep & Deep Publications

As one of the best-known survivors of the concentration camps, Primo Levi's testimony to his experiences in Auschwitz is internationally recognised as one of the most significant works of the last century. This volume examines each of Levi's works in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888209Author Kate WillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 299g

Cavalcanti is a key figure in the development of Italian poetry, and a fascinating character in the shadow of his contemporary and friend Dante Alighieri. Cavalcanti also has an interesting place in the cannon of English poetry, where he was an important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888643Author Paula CoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781886632Author Carole Birkan-BerzFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 662g

This book is the first sustained scholarly effort to analyze reflections of Far Eastern, especially Buddhist-inspired, aesthetics, culture, and philosophy in the poetry and criticism of Robert Hass. Three main concerns of his work can be examined through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406085560Author Renaud AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 3120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782251730202Author Teofilo FolengoFormat PaperbackPage Count 652Imprint Les Belles LettresPublisher Les Belles LettresWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782251730097Author Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 403Imprint Les Belles LettresPublisher Les Belles LettresWeight(grams) 308g

In our modern era of hyperconnectivity, the intricacies of our interpersonal relationships wield a profound influence on our sense of self. Throughout history, Italian literature has served as a rich tapestry reflecting these dynamics, offering poignant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631894323Author Monika FludernikFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AG

Every year, Italy swells with millions of tourists who infuse the economy with billions of dollars and almost outnumber Italians themselves. In fact, Italy has been a model tourist destination for longer than it has been a modern state. The Beautiful...

I saggi raccolti in Iconografie pirandelliane esplorano una fitta serie di domande relative alle molteplici sfaccettature della cultura visiva nell’opera e nell’immagine pubblica di Luigi Pirandello. Qual è il ruolo della dimensione visiva nella poetica...

The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887189Author Lesley CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 170g

Based on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the notion of the heroic ideal to exposedysfunctional attempts at immortality through the interpretation of three works of fiction. In this...

This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. These are understood as a way of intercultural, hermeneutically oriented secondary communication in which the analyses of "otherness" do not serve for the...

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This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. Turning abstract issues into narrative form, literary writing increases awareness of environmental issues as well as exerting a...

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In 1948, the poet Eugenio Montale published his Quaderno di traduzioni and created an entirely new Italian literary genre, the "translation notebook." The quaderni were the work of some of Italy's foremost poets, and their translation anthologies proved...

While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka's Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to reconsider its dimensions and influencers. Exploring a...

This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject's relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon...

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This study examines the representation of home spaces in three twenty-first-century Nigerian novels written in English, applying various spatial theories to analyse their portrayal. These contemporary novels, which center on family life, are set in...

Law 180, which abolished mental asylums in Italy, was passed in 1978. It came to be known as the ‘Basaglia Law’, after the physician whose work revolutionised psychiatry in Italy and worldwide. Franco Basaglia (1924-1980) battled to overturn an obsolete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541483Author Guyda ArmstrongFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 608g

Winner of the Elma Dangerfield 2018 Byron in Italy - Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poet's 'last attachment' - forms part of the fabric of Romantic mythology. Yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884379Author Eugenio RefiniFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 608g