Conversations with the Self

Dr Christian G. Moretti

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• The book develops three perspectives: that of two works produced in contemporary times that looks back to the years of Mussolini's and Franco's regime... Lees meer

Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• This volume examines the multifaceted relationship between women and the public sphere from the mid-19th to the early 21st century and offers a wide-r... Lees meer

"L'etico non si puo insegnare"

Patrizia Piredda

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• "L'etico non si puo insegnare" provides an original insight into the connection between ethics and language by comparing their use in Nietzsche and D'... Lees meer

Words against Words

Malcolm Angelucci

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• 'Words against Words' is the first book devoted to the analysis of the style of Carlo Michelstaedter's major work,' La Persuasione e la Rettorica'; th... Lees meer

The Diary of Elio Schmitz

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• The Diary of Elio Schmitz is a beautiful and moving portrait of an artistic young man living in late nineteenth-century Trieste. It is also the first ... Lees meer

The Cinema of Silvio Soldini

Bernadette Luciano

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• One of the acclaimed filmmakers of the so-called 'new Italian cinema', Silvio Soldini's early films were recognized by critics for their artistic and ... Lees meer

From Terrone to Extracomunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• Bigotry, racism and pernicious stereotypes, present in Italian society are examined through its cinema. This volume offers an informative, challenging... Lees meer

Ageing Between Cultures

Daniela Cosmini_rose

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• This interdisciplinary volume addresses the multiple dimensions of the ageing experience of Italian migrants in South Australia by revisiting the conc... Lees meer

The Great War in Italy

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• This book collects interdisciplinary papers from international scholars who investigate the representation and interpretation of the First World War i... Lees meer

Emotion and Cognition in the Films of Bernardo Bertolluci

Serra Silvana

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• This is the first book to analyse the aesthetics and narrative structures of Bertolucci's films by using affective and cognitive theory in order to de... Lees meer

Mezcla, World Noir in Italy

Piera Carroli

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies | nr. 43
• Marilù Oliva's oeuvre is an essential means of understanding Italy's complexities of today in relation to those of the past. Like many of her protagon... Lees meer

Her Maestro's Echo

Pietro Frassica

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• A unique insight into the story of the love between Italian writer Pirandello, and his muse, actress Marta Abba. Between 1925 and 1936, Luigi Pirandel... Lees meer

Natalia Ginzburg

Nadia Castronuova

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• Together with Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani, Natalia Ginzburg is considered one of the most important post-WWII Italian Jewish writers. Paradoxically... Lees meer

A Voice in the Fire

Theodore Ell

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• Piero Bigongiari (1914-1997) was among the most prolific and consistent Italian poets of the last century. He was central to the 'third generation' of... Lees meer

Il Gattopardo

Ernest Hampson

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• Ernest Hampson's introductory study focuses on the novel's historical theme, of the Risorgimento and its effects on the island's ruling class, as well... Lees meer

Mapping Complexity

Kerstin Pilz, Pilz Kerstin

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• This book presents an analysis of the dialogue of literature and science that forms a central part of the work of Italo Calvino, one of Italy's best k... Lees meer

The First Day of Spring

Roberto Sanesi

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• This book is the first complete translated collection of Roberto Sanesi's poems. With the addition of 7 previously unpublished poems, the book feature... Lees meer

Study Guide to Il Gattopardo

Brian Cainen

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• This Guide provides students and general readers alike with essential background historical information, explanations of the many literary and histori... Lees meer

The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti

Simon West

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• Guido Cavalcanti is a key figure in the early development of Italian poetry along with his younger friend Dante Alighieri. Cavalcanti is also essentia... Lees meer

The Missing Text

Paula Geldenhuys

• Paperback | Troubador Italian Studies
• This book aims to describe and reveal how the self-referentiality of missing texts has irrevocably influenced world literature of the late twentieth c... Lees meer

Through Human Love to God

Pamela Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• Dante and Petrarch are two of the world's greatest love poets who convey emotional, intellectual and religious life through the story of human love. T... Lees meer

The Atheism of Giacomo Leopardi

Cosetta Veronese, Pamela Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• Leopardi's atheism has always been and remains a contentious issue. It has been condemned, denied, and vindicated in equal measure. This volume of ess... Lees meer

Grazia Deledda

Martha King

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies
• What made a young Sardinian woman in the nineteenth century think that she could become a famous writer, especially considering the time and her posit... Lees meer

Fascism and Resistance in Italian Cinema

Dominic H Gavin

• Paperback | Engels | Troubador Italian Studies | nr. 56
• Italian cinema is one of this country's postwar success stories; the memory of Fascism one of its ongoing challenges. This book proposes to read these... Lees meer