Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : 1579583903
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Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135455295
The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.
Author : Chiara Bottici
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1107015618
Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory.
Author : Roberto Nicosia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1527521184
This collection of thirteen essays brings together Italian and American scholars to present a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese. Throughout the book, the contributors carefully and intentionally unpack and explain the development of the short story genre and demonstrate the breadth of themes – cultural, historical and linguistic – detailed in these narratives. Dedicated to a genre “devoted to lightness and flexibility, as well as quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity,” this collection paints a careful and exacting picture of an important part of both Italian and literary history.
Author : Fulvio Conti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2022-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1000812766
This book shows how Dante Alighieri has been represented in the Italian collective imagination from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Often held to be a precursor of Italian unity, the author of the Divine Comedy has been put forward both as a standard-bearer of a secular, anti-clerical Italy and the embodiment of the concept of a deeply religious and Catholic nation; while he was later adopted by nationalist and fascists as well as a pop icon in the age of the internet and globalization. The book describes this long and fascinating history from a completely original point of view: the centuries-old myth of Dante is analysed from the perspective of cultural history. The sources employed include Dante commemorations, festivals and monuments, pilgrimages to his tomb, films and other media productions about Dante, as well as comic strips, advertisements and other cultural items dedicated to him.
Author : Monika Poettinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1350014028
This edited collection provides the first comprehensive history of Florence as the mid-19th century capital of the fledgling Italian nation. Covering various aspects of politics, economics, culture and society, this book examines the impact that the short-lived experience of becoming the political and administrative centre of the Kingdom of Italy had on the Tuscan city, both immediately and in the years that followed. It reflects upon the urbanising changes that affected the appearance of the city and the introduction of various economic and cultural innovations. The volume also analyses the crisis caused by the eventual relocation of the capital to Rome and the subsequent bankruptcy of the communality which hampered Florence on the long road to modernity. Florence: Capital of the Kingdom of Italy, 1865-71 is a fascinating study for all students and scholars of modern Italian history.
Author : Guido Petruccioli
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1803272570
John Marshall (1862-1928) was an antiquities expert hired by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. An attentive observer of the antiquities trade, Marshall's archive, photographs and annotations on more than 1000 objects, shines light on the secretive world of art dealing and how objects arrived at the largest museums of Europe and North America.
Author : J. Dickie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0312299524
Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post Unification period, when the Mezzogiornio was widely seen as barbaric, violent or irrational, an "Africa" on the European continent.
Author : Guilherme Gabriel Ballande Romanelli
Publisher : IUL Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN :
This volume collects some of the papers presented at the 16th IARTEM Conference held in Florence in April 2022. It was a ’difficult conference’, held at a time when the pandemic was still present, and therefore an important opportunity to resume a dialogue that seemed to have been interrupted. The richness of the content, which is the result of the reflections of authors from all over the world, allows us to provide a precise scenario of the research state of art in the field of textbooks and digital resources for teaching.
Author : Catherine O'Rawe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1351195697
"Luigi Pirandello is best known for his experimental plays, but his narrative production has not enjoyed the same degree of critical attention. O'Rawe's study represents the first major reassessment of this output, including the 'realist' novels, the historical novel I vecchi e i giovani (1909) and the autobiographical Suo marito (1911). The book identifies in Pirandello a practice of 'self-plagiarism' - constant rewriting and revision and obsessive re-use of material - and explores the relation of these overlooked modes of composition to the author's own theories of authorship and textuality. Drawing on a wide range of critical theory, O'Rawe repositions Pirandello as a major figure in the development of European narrative modernism."
