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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887943Author Alessandra DiazziFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 431g

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...

Oriana Fallaci (b. 1930) is an awkward presence on Italian bookshelves, in world journalism and among feminists. This book, the first literary study of Fallaci, examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. A fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648895739Author Damiano BenvegnùFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 281g

This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible the writing of Italian women. The role of women in society and the persistent misogyny even of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788822268471Author Alberto ManguelFormat HardbackImprint Casa Editrice Leo S. OlschkiPublisher Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

This book examines the audiences and languages of Dominican sermons in late medieval Italy. It is a thorough analysis of how Latinate theological culture interacted with popular religious devotion. In particular it assesses the role of vernacular...

This volume comprises articles by scholars from three disciplines – literary studies, TEFL methodology, and history – from three universities – University College Cork (UCC), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (KU...

The nineteenth century saw the reinvention of Dante as a Romantic and national poet, his recognition as the canonical ‘central man of all the world’ and the Commedia’s diffusion as a widely accessible text. Addressing these aspects of Dante’s presence...

Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357938303Author Gustave AimardPage Count 252Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788822268211Author Joseph FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Casa Editrice Leo S. OlschkiPublisher Casa Editrice Leo S. OlschkiWeight(grams) 5439g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357964166Author George SandPage Count 458Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer's trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee's...

The emergence of cinema as a predominant form of mass entertainment in the 1910s inspired intellectuals to rethink their definitions of art. The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod traces the encounter of Italy's writers with cinema, and in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888582Author Elisa SegniniFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 331g

This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the fascinating and hardly known realm of reciting poetry in medieval and Renaissance Italy. The study of more than 50 treatises on both music and poetry, as well as other literary sources and documents from...

Introduzione al commercio italiano: An Introduction to Business Italian, now in its second edition, represents a new approach in teaching Italian with a focus. Readings are prepared or selected for their emphasis on business and social life...

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 9781781888544Author Elisa SegniniFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783742547Author George CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039102518Author Marina SpuntaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 530g

Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted by writers across a variety of languages and cultures, since before the medicalisation of eating disorders in the late nineteenth century to the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357931823Author Jules VernePage Count 134Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888636Author Paola CoriFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 648g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888766Author Guido BonsaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883020Author Marzia BeltramiFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357955096Author Anatole FrancePage Count 134Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This book challenges widespread and largely negative assumptions about Italian postmodernism and postmodernism in general. It considers contemporary Italian culture as a particularly interesting testing-ground for pluriform struggles of an ethical or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888193Author Kate WillmanFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541728Author Anne C LeoneFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781885925Author Alice LodaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 522g

‘Anticlassicisms,’ as a plural, react to the many possible forms of ‘classicisms.’ In the sixteenth century, classicist tendencies range from humanist traditions focusing on Horace and the teachings of rhetoric, via Pietro Bembo’s canonization of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888797Author Zygmunt G BarańskiFormat HardbackPage Count 658Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 1238g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410221148Author Florence TrailFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...