The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies – serie
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Imperial Designs
Italians in China 1900–1947
Inbunden, 2012
1240 kr
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Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recent scholarship on both the Liberal and Fascist Italian colonial enterprises centers on the Mediterranean and Northern …
Giacomo Leopardi’s Search For a Common Life Through Poetry
A Different Nobility, A Different Love
Inbunden, 2012
1547 kr
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This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and in his conception of love; his poems and prose …
Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
A Bloody Journey
Inbunden, 2012
1547 kr
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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 articulate the changes in the social landscape of the …
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies
The Arts and History, Volume 2
Inbunden, 2012
1603 kr
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Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian …
Mussolini's National Project in Argentina
Av David Aliano
Inbunden, 2012
1313 kr
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During the 1920s and 1930s, Mussolini’s fascist regime attempted to promote fascist Italy’s national project in Argentina, bombarding the republic with its propaganda. Although politically a failure, this propaganda provoked a debate over the idea of a national identity outside the nation-state and …
Re-reading Italian Americana
Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism
Inbunden, 2013
1385 kr
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This book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. It also discusses other social and cultural issues that pertain to Italian Americana. Section two consists of six …
Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
A Bloody Journey
Häftad, 2014
818 kr
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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 articulate the changes in the social landscape of the …
Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890
Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture
Av Gabriella Romani, Jennifer Burns
Inbunden, 2017
1790 kr
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The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help …
Re-reading Italian Americana
Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism
Häftad, 2015
818 kr
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This book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. It also discusses other social and cultural issues that pertain to Italian Americana. Section two consists of six …
Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and the Ethics of Desire
Between Action and Contemplation
Inbunden, 2017
1385 kr
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This book focuses on the notion of desire in late-nineteenth-century Italy, and how this notion shapes the life and works of two of Italy’s most prominent authors at that time, Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D’Annunzio. In the fin de siècle, the philosophical speculation on desire, inspired by …
Goliarda Sapienza in Context
Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture
Av Alberica Bazzoni, Emma Bond m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1466 kr
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The present edited collection of essays on the Sicilian author Goliarda Sapienza includes contributions from established and emerging scholars working in the field of contemporary women’s writing. Essays in this volume examine Sapienza through multiple perspectives, taking into account the …
Italian Women at War
Sisters in Arms from the Unification to the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2016
1313 kr
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Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this topic. Part one of the book focuses on …
Italian Women at War
Sisters in Arms from the Unification to the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2019
587 kr
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Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this topic. Part one of the book focuses on …
Return Narratives
Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature
Inbunden, 2017
1385 kr
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This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of the authors' return, either metaphorical or literal to the country of origin and its culture, Return …
Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania
Allies on the Home Front, 1944–1945
Av Flavio G. Conti, Alan R. Perry
Inbunden, 2016
1385 kr
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During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States. When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies in September 1943, most of these soldiers agreed to swear allegiance to the United States and to collaborate in the fight against Germany. At the Letterkenny Army …
Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania
Allies on the Home Front, 1944–1945
Av Flavio G. Conti, Alan R. Perry
Häftad, 2019
631 kr
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During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States. When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies in September 1943, most of these soldiers agreed to swear allegiance to the United States and to collaborate in the fight against Germany. At the Letterkenny Army …
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions
Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Inbunden, 2018
1628 kr
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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 concerns. Pasolini’s works touched and continues to …
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions
Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Häftad, 2020
623 kr
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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 concerns. Pasolini’s works touched and continues to …
Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy
Imagination and Thought across Media
Av Lisa Sarti, Michael Subialka
Inbunden, 2017
1466 kr
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This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian modernist. The volume re-examines traditional critical notions central to the …
Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century
Constructing Subjects
Inbunden, 2017
1466 kr
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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 essentialism potentially involved in underlining …
Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century
Constructing Subjects
Häftad, 2019
656 kr
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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 essentialism potentially involved in underlining …
Performing Bodies
Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)
Inbunden, 2017
1304 kr
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Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study with an overview of nineteenth-century theories on female …
Transmissions of Memory
Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture
Inbunden, 2018
1385 kr
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Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian …
Author in Criticism
Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom
Inbunden, 2020
1385 kr
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The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It …
Author in Criticism
Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom
Häftad, 2022
591 kr
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The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It …
