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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410220806Author A C LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887837Author Enza de FrancisciFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 522g

Modernitalia provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the form of twelve essays by the celebrated cultural historian Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Shuttling back and forth between literature, architecture, design, and the visual arts, the volume explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887172Author Lesley CaldwellFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 490g

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...

According to Petrarch, the Father of the Renaissance, Ireland was almost as well known to the Italians as Italy itself. Visiting Ireland from the comfort of their armchairs, his followers thus knew for a fact that the Irish ate their fathers and slept...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839543340Author Zygmunt G BarańskiFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint LegendaPublisher Modern Humanities Research AssociationWeight(grams)...

The Intellectual as a Detective: From Leonardo Sciascia to Roberto Saviano offers a fresh perspective on both Italian crime fiction and the role of the intellectual in Italian society. By analyzing the characterization of men of culture as investigators,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714525433Author MontaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288036Author George CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977708Author Patrick BarronFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 478gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980081459Author Corinna Del Greco LobnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288432Author George CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289439Author George CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

The Church of Solitude tells the story of Maria Concezione, a young Sardinian seamstress living with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. Overwhelmed by the shame of her diagnosis, she decides that no one can know what has happened to her,...

Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most genres, including novelle, burlesque poetry, and comedies. As a playwright he was, in his time, more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254776Author Francesca D'Alessandro BehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213711Author Francesca D BehrFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 603g

In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the...

This bilingual edition of the Vita Nuova is the first facing-page translation of this text to be available in over 50 years. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta have translated Dante's lyrics into line-by-line free verse that seeks to reproduce Dante's...

Deledda, the Nobel Prize winner of 1926, a century ago identified a psychosociological pathology: the arrested maturation of her male characters. Throughout her prose, truncated maturity functions as a psychological undertow, sucking down its suffers and...

At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to pacify his less perceptive audience, Francis Fergusson investigates a relationship between Shakespeare and Dante, whom he sees as writing out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322242Author Helena SansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288425Author George CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883051Author Marzia BeltramiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 340g

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity—individual and national—and belonging. It is also an affirmation of diversity. The editors of this volume have brought together articles that analyze the literature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863350082Author Cheryl ChaffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Common Ground Research NetworksPublisher Common Ground Research NetworksWeight(grams)...

The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned...

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...

By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to...

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women's writing through the twentieth century-a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of...

Founded by F.T. Marinetti in 1909, Italian Futurism was the first major avant-garde movement of the twentieth century. It was also one of the longest lasting, having continued as long as Marinetti and his colleagues remained active -- until 1944. Despite...

Pirandello, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a little known to most English readers. Too few of his plays and stories have been translated. This hook, therefore, serves the double purpose of introducing the Italian genius through a summary of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781881019Author Modern Humanities Research AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern...

Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018Byron 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...

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 issues regarding the self, but also various social...

Translated here for the first time into English, Sergio Zatti's The Quest for Epic is a selection of studies on the two major poets of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, by one of the most important literary critics writing in...

Despite its undeniable impact on modern literature, there are very few comprehensive studies of literary works produced in Italy from the end of the eighteenth- to the twentieth century. The Invention of Modern Italian Literature examines the methods of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863350075Author Cheryl ChaffinFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Common Ground Research NetworksPublisher Common Ground Research NetworksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497954786Author Hermann OelsnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...