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Fictions of Appetite explores and investigates the aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in a body of modernist literature published in Italian between 1905 and 1939. The corpus examined includes novels, short stories, poems,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839540370Author K PowleslandFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint LegendaPublisher Legenda

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884850Author Professor in Literary Theory Sascha BruFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783743599Author George CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 549g

Several poetic and prose compositions in early Italian literature contain references to the bubonic plague and other illnesses that were used in the language both literally and metaphorically. The first detailed description of a plague epidemic, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783742530Author George CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 431g

Catholicism has played a central role in Irish society for centuries. It is sometimes perceived in a negative light, being associated with repression, antiquated morality and a warped view of sexuality. However, there are also the positive aspects that...

The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as Italy’s second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has generated an intense and often polarized debate that has involved all the cultural, political and religious institutions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781886748Author Marta ArnaldiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 658g

"Inklings" nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781885727Author Maiko FavaroFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 508g

Questa antologia internazionale focalizza l'opera letteraria di Giovanni Verga puntando sul suo potenziale "caleidoscopico" e transculturale. Le innovazioni del grande Verista siciliano, il respiro europeo del suo pensiero, le numerose sinergie...

This book invites readers to think of Mediterranean cultures as interconnected worlds, seen in light of how they evolve, disappear, are reborn and perpetually transform. This perspective intends to build bridges between the Northern and Southern coasts...

In nineteenth-century Italy, a woman's place was considered to be in the domestic sphere, devoted to family life. But during the Risorgimento and the years following Unification, economic, political and social changes enabled women progressively to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884867Author Professor in Literary Theory Sascha BruFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888759Author Guido BonsaverFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884577Author Stefano JossaFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103754Author Cinzia Sartini BlumFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Italica Press Inc.Publisher Italica Press Inc.Weight(grams) 494g

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...

This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteux’s The Gentleman’s Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals running from 1692 to 1694. These proto-novelistic fictions are accompanied by a scholarly introduction as...

Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring...

This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888308Author Nick HavelyFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 853g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909188006Author John TookFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ubiquity Press LtdPublisher Ubiquity Press LtdWeight(grams) 293g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406128519Author Ursula FanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 3670g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357960618Author VoltairePage Count 30Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783741731Author George CorbettFormat HardbackImprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839543012Author Claudia DellacasaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781886649Author Carole Birkan-BerzFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410206053Author M Alice WyldFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

This volume brings together contributions arising from papers originally presented at the Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture International Conference held at the University of Nottingham in April 2015. It examines trends in contemporary...

In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357958936Author Gustave AimardPage Count 272Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s...

The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists – at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the impact of Theist and Atheist thought on the narratology of...

"A model of academic praxis." - Public Books Elena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferrante, whose four Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014) became a global phenomenon. The book proposes that Ferrante...

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This book invites readers to think of Mediterranean cultures as interconnected worlds, seen in light of how they evolve, disappear, are reborn and perpetually transform. This perspective intends to build bridges between the Northern and Southern coasts...

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Narrativas del miedo: Terror en obras literarias, cinematicas y televisivas de Latinoamerica es una coleccion de ensayos escritos en ingles y en espanol en los que se analizan distintas representaciones del miedo como un elemento estructural y simbolico...