A Rhetoric of the Decameron

Marilyn Migiel

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• Both a passionate denunciation of masculinist readings of the Decameron and a meticulous critique of previous feminist analyses, Marilyn Migiel's A Rh... Lees meer

Punishment and Penance

Thomas B Deutscher

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• Punishment and Penance provides the first comprehensive study of an Italian bishop's tribunal in criminal matters, such as violence, forbidden sexual ... Lees meer

Federico Fellini

Hava Aldouby

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• Federico Fellini professed a desire to create "an entire film made of immobile pictures." In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launchi... Lees meer

The Decameron First Day in Perspective

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• Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is the best known and most read work in Italian literature next to Dante's Divine Comedy . In the tradition of Lectura ... Lees meer

Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives

Stefania Lucamante

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• Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion - particularly indignation - and how it shapes ... Lees meer

The Invention of Modern Italian Literature

Gino Tellini

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• Despite its undeniable impact on modern literature, there are very few comprehensive studies of literary works produced in Italy from the end of the e... Lees meer

Aretino's Satyr

Raymond Waddington

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• Pietro Aretino's literary influence was felt throughout most of Europe during the sixteenth-century, yet English-language criticism of this writer's w... Lees meer

Schooling in Modernity

Paola Bonifazio

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• Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and... Lees meer

Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

Nancy Harrowitz

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• In Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor, Nancy Harrowitz examines the complex role that Levi's cultural identity played in his choices of how to ... Lees meer

Dante

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• Dante: Contemporary Perspectives gathers recent and newly commissioned articles on Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), whose epic the Divine Comedy , is one ... Lees meer

Hermes' Lyre

Sherry Roush

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• From the mysterious glosses by 'EK' in the poetry of Edmund Spenser, to the self-commentary in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire , readers of literature ha... Lees meer

Irresistible Signs

Paola Gambarota

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• Language is now understood as a key component of cultural identity, but discourses on linguistic nationalism are only a few centuries old. In Irresist... Lees meer

Kafka's Italian Progeny

Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski

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• While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka's Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of ... Lees meer

Dante and Augustine

Simone Marchesi

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• At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: H... Lees meer

The 'Commentaries' of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy

Emily O'Brien

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• Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II's Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the... Lees meer

The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality

Robin Pickering-Iazzi

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• The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded ... Lees meer

Luigi Pirandello

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• The texts of Luigi Pirandello, one of the literary giants of this century, have been subject to widely different readings by successive generations of... Lees meer

The Court and Its Critics

Paola Ugolini

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• Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the spac... Lees meer

Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity

Margherita Heyer-Caput

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• Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) was the author of many influential novels and remains one of the most significant Italian women writers of her time. Howeve... Lees meer

Courting Celebrity

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• In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener's daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese's account focuses on ... Lees meer

Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon

Angela M Jeannet

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• Although Italo Calvino (1923-1985) is one of the most widely read and translated Italian novelists of the century, a comprehensive analytical work in ... Lees meer

The Invention of Modern Italian Literature

Gino Tellini

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• Despite its undeniable impact on modern literature, there are very few comprehensive studies of literary works produced in Italy from the end of the e... Lees meer

Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower

David M Hertz

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• Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy's fascist perio... Lees meer

Prison Terms

Ellen Nerenberg

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• In this ground-breaking work, Ellen Nerenberg offers an analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, the last fi... Lees meer