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Italia lunare
Gli anni Sessanta e l'occulto
Av Fabio Camilletti, Robert S C Gordon m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
762 kr
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L'Italia degli anni Sessanta non è solo il paese del miracolo economico e dei conflitti sociali: è anche un paese che scopre il proprio volto perturbante e lunare , attraverso un vero boom dell'occulto che investe ogni settore dell'industria culturale. Questo libro riporta alla luce il volto …
Italian Orientalism
Nationhood, Cosmopolitanism and the Cultural Politics of Identity
Häftad, 2019
705 kr
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The on-going debate on the legacies of modern European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. Italian Orientalism is an interdisciplinary and transnational study both of the reception of European Orientalism in Risorgimento Italy, and of the development of an Italian Orientalist …
Queer(ing) Gender in Italian Women’s Writing
Maraini, Sapienza, Morante
Häftad, 2021
838 kr
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QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN’S WRITING is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis of Italian women’s writing. Focusing especially on the writers Dacia Maraini, Goliarda Sapienza and Elsa Morante, and delimiting the field of enquiry …
Era mio padre
Italian Terrorism of the Anni di Piombo in the Postmemorials of Victims’ Relatives
Av Sciltian Gastaldi, David Ward
Häftad, 2018
761 kr
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Italian political terrorism of the 1970s has produced in its aftermath a rich body of memorial writing, created not only by victims or perpetrators but also by the secondary victims of violence, often children of the dead, who many years after their loss ask why their parents or relatives were …
Matera, 1945–1960
The History of a 'National Disgrace'
Häftad, 2019
726 kr
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The southern Italian city of Matera was dubbed a «national disgrace» in the immediate post-war period due to media and political focus on its distinctive cave homes, the Sassi, which housed an estimated 15,000 people in the early 1950s. The Italian government implemented a rehousing programme for …
Italian Industrial Literature and Film
Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor
Av Carlo Baghetti, Jim Carter m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
473 kr
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«Questo volume […] non si limita a descrivere, ma ricompone un quadro finora assente. I 37 capitoli che compongono questo volume-monstre dettagliano aspetti, figure, momenti spesso messi da parte nel dibattito. … Attraverso i diversi capitoli il lettore percepisce la pervasività [dell’industria] …
Bruno Munari
The Lightness of Art
Av Pierpaolo Antonello, Matilde Nardelli m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
789 kr
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Bruno Munari was one of the most important and eclectic twentieth-century European artists. Dubbed the «Leonardo and Peter Pan» of contemporary art, he pioneered what would later be labelled kinetic art, playing a key role in the constitution and definition of the aesthetic programmes of groups …
Queer Ventennio
Italian Fascism, Homoerotic Art, and the Nonmodern in the Modern
Häftad, 2019
811 kr
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Given fascist proscriptions against homosexuality, a surprising number of artists under Mussolini’s regime were queer. Exploring the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history of homosexuality and European modernism, this ground-breaking study analyses three queer modernists – …
Innesti
Primo Levi e i libri altrui
Av Pierpaolo Antonello, Gianluca Cinelli m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
796 kr
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L’opera di Primo Levi presenta un caso straordinariamente ricco e articolato di intertestualità. Lettore curioso, onnivoro, asistematico, Levi esplorò molteplici campi del sapere – letterari, scientifici, storici, ecc. – navigando tra libri e riviste specializzate e di divulgazione, per motivi di …
Distance to China
Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriotism, Commitment and Disillusion (1898–1985)
Häftad, 2022
804 kr
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«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of …
Italian Chimeras
Narrating Italy through the Writing of Sebastiano Vassalli
Häftad, 2020
991 kr
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Sebastiano Vassalli (1941–2015) engaged in an ambitious project to narrate Italy, the nation, its people and its pathologies. His vast cast of characters includes a prototypical fascist father, a terrorist son, a Carmelite nun, Virgil and other literary giants, Francesco Crispi, and an orphan girl …
Opera aperta
Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present
Häftad, 2022
814 kr
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Runner-up in the 2023 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature from the Electronic Literature Organization«At last, here is a book written by an Italian about the homeopathic but essential role that Italian artists, and among them, important writers, have played to introduce …
«Esemplari umani»
I personaggi nell'opera di Primo Levi
Av Giovanna Cordibella, Martina Mengoni
Häftad, 2023
804 kr
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Fin da Se questo è un uomo e La tregua , Primo Levi dispiega di fronte al lettore una costellazione di personaggi: personaggi pescati dal vivo, riprodotti con un'impressione soggettiva; personaggi spaccati e ricombinati (non solo da tipi umani esistenti ma anche dalla tradizione letteraria). Questo …
Uno spazio narrativo immersivo
La XIII Triennale di Milano, 1964
Häftad, 2022
632 kr
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Curata da Vittorio Gregotti e Umberto Eco, la Sezione introduttiva della XIII Triennale del 1964 dedicata al Tempo libero fu uno degli episodi figurativo-teatrali più significativi del fermento sperimentale che interessò l’Italia dei primi anni Sessanta. Architettura, letteratura, arti visive, …
Queering the South
Case Studies with Emma Dante
Häftad, 2026
755 kr
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This book offers a queer reading of the oeuvre of Sicilian director Emma Dante, winner of the 2026 Theatre Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. It contextualises Dante’s work within the longstanding anti-meridionalist North–South binary that has dogged Italy history and culture, and argues that …
Waste and Discard in Italy and the Mediterranean
Theories, Practices, Literature and Film
Av Damiano Benvegnù, Marta Cariello m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
739 kr
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«From the violence of growth and the mountains of garbage to migrant lives brutally cast away in the Mediterranean, what constitutes waste? Who defines and arranges its semantics? This collection of thoughtful essays takes us into the unsuspected depths of the question—the discarded returns to …
“Mysterious Flames”
Fascism, Identity, and Mass Culture in Umberto Eco
Häftad, 2026
755 kr
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"Mysterious Flames" engages with Umberto Eco’s work from a new perspective, by tracing his intellectual development through the lens of Cultural Studies, drawing in particular on the thought of Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall. It offers the first detailed analysis of Eco’s representation of Italian …
Second-hand Stories
Reported Testimonies in Contemporary Italian Literature (1980–2020)
Av Luigi Pinton
Häftad, 2026
755 kr
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The second-hand story is a narrative structure that hinges on a narrator who listens to and reports other people’s words. Updating the older literary convention of the reported tale and responding to the recent marked increase in both the production of and interest in autobiography, autofiction, …
Federigo Tozzi e i paradigmi del “non-conscio”
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Collocandosi all’incrocio tra critica letteraria e storia delle idee, il libro propone una nuova lettura dell’opera di Federigo Tozzi alla luce della psicologia sperimentale francese e della sua circolazione in Italia tra Otto e Novecento. L’indagine intreccia due prospettive metodologiche solo in …
Staging the Fascist War
The Ministry of Popular Culture and Italian Propaganda on the Home Front, 1938–1943
Häftad, 2016
812 kr
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Historians regard the Italian home front during the Second World War as an observation post from which to study the relationship between Fascism and society during the years of the collapse of the Mussolini regime. Yet the role of propaganda in influencing that relationship has received little …
Postmodern Impegno - Impegno postmoderno
Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture - Etica e engagement nella cultura italiana contemporanea
Av Pierpaolo Antonello, Florian Mussgnug
Häftad, 2009
1023 kr
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This book challenges widespread and largely negative assumptions about Italian postmodernism and postmodernism in general. It considers contemporary Italian culture as a particularly interesting testing-ground for pluriform struggles of an ethical or political kind, struggles which build upon, …
Pasolini
Cinema e Antropologia
Häftad, 2014
863 kr
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Questo il primo libro che esplora sistematicamente le strategie discorsive e le metodologie antropologiche adottate da Pier Paolo Pasolini nei suoi film. Lanalisi delle intersezioni tra discorso antropologico, documentario e finzione rivela i modi attraverso cui il cinema di Pasolini sia …
New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema
Av Danielle Hipkins, Roger Pitt
Häftad, 2014
688 kr
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The figure of the child has long been a mainstay of Italian cinema, conventionally interpreted as a witness of adult shortcomings, a vessel of innocence, hope and renewal, or an avatar of nostalgia for the (cinematic) past. New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema challenges these settled …
Modernitalia
Edited by Francesca Santovetti
Häftad, 2012
951 kr
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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 the metaphysics of speed, futurist and dada …
Psychiatry, Subjectivity, Community
Franco Basaglia and Biopolitics
Häftad, 2013
907 kr
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Law 180, which abolished mental asylums in Italy, was passed in 1978. It came to be known as the ‘Basaglia Law’, after the physician whose work revolutionised psychiatry in Italy and worldwide. Franco Basaglia (1924-1980) battled to overturn an obsolete but prevalent conception of psychiatry, …
Destination Italy
Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative
Av Emma Bond, Guido Bonsaver m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
964 kr
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Italy is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe, having long been one of the continent’s most important sources of emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational movements and represents a unique and …
Fictions of Appetite
Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature
Häftad, 2013
878 kr
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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, essays and plays by F.T. Marinetti, Aldo …
Migrant Imaginaries
Figures in Italian Migration Literature
Häftad, 2013
752 kr
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This book addresses a rich corpus of contemporary narratives by authors who have come to Italy as migrants. It traces the figurative commonalities that emerge across these diverse texts, which together suggest the shape and substance of what might be termed ‘migrant imaginaries’. Examining five …
Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy
Between Private and Public Spheres
Av Katharine Mitchell, Helena Sanson
Häftad, 2013
760 kr
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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 engage in pursuits that had previously been the …
Eccentricity and Sameness
Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s–1930s
Häftad, 2015
964 kr
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Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has been previously asserted. Focusing on texts …
