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Galeazzo Ciano
The Fascist Pretender
Av Tobias Hof
Inbunden, 2021
844 kr
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Building on extensive archival research and important scholarly analysis, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender examines the life of Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister of fascist Italy from 1936 to 1943 and Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law. Ciano’s life serves as a lens through which to gain a better …
Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'
Inbunden, 2015
704 kr
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With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as …
Prison Terms
Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism
Inbunden, 2001
703 kr
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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 fifteen years of Fascism and the fifteen that followed. Nerenberg diverges from the notion that a radical break from Fascism coincided with Mussolini's …
Century of Women
Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse
Inbunden, 2002
785 kr
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Eighteenth-century Italian playwright Pietro Chiari designated the age he lived in 'The Century of Women' - an age when women gained considerable power through education and admission to various academic positions and professions. Structured as an extended disputation, this book tells the tale of …
Writing to Delight
Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
Av Antonia Arslan, Gabriella Romani
Häftad, 2006
542 kr
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The nineteenth century represents a crucial historical and cultural phase in the development of modern Italy. Writing to Delight provides a selection of short stories written by some of the most accomplished and acclaimed female authors of nineteenth-century Italy, made available to an …
Tragedy Revealed
The Story of Italians from Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1943-1956
Inbunden, 2005
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
665 kr
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As the Second World War drew to a close, European borders were being redrawn. The regions of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, nominally Italian but at various times also belonging to Austria and Germany, fell under the rule of Yugoslavia and its dictator Marshal Tito. The ensuing removal and …
Crossword Italian!
Have Fun Learning Italian by Solving Crossword Puzzles
Häftad, 1999
373 kr
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Designed to teach the basic elements of the Italian language, this book is a breakthrough in the field of language studies. Its easy, stimulating, and enjoyable approach to learning Italian will benefit beginners and more advanced speakers alike.An opening chapter on Italian spelling and …
Vite Italiane
Dodici Conversazioni Con Italiani
Häftad, 2005
485 kr
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In this companion volume to L'Italia verso il Duemila, Ugo Skubikowski provides a glimpse into authentic Italian life through the presentation of twelve interviews with Italians. Intended as a text for students in second-year university and beyond, Vite italiane brings together discussions with …
Lettura E Conversazione
Av Salvatore Bancheri, Paul Colilli m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
373 kr
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Designed for beginning students of Italian at the high-school, university, and community college levels, Lettura e Conversazione is a series of interesting, stimulating dialogues and readings based on actual experiences and situations that the student faces in daily life, It stresses the …
Italian False Friends
Häftad, 1994
443 kr
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Italian words that resemble words in English but have different meanings are the cause of student bafflement and some hilariously mistaken usage. Examples of falsi amici that continue to amuse teachers of Italian include casino, which is a brothel or mess, not a gambling place, and intossicazione, …
L'Italiano Si Impara in Due
Av Marco Barsacchi, Vincenzo Gatto
Häftad, 1993
456 kr
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This workbook offers the teacher of Italian a varied collection of activities for the classroom. The thirty-one activities involve situations and guided exercises for creating dialogues, exchanging information, providing descriptions, and completing questionnaires and forms. In L’italiano si impara …
Allegories of Contamination
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
Häftad, 1996
381 kr
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The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and …
Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry
An Anthology
Av John Picchione, Lawrence R. Smith
Häftad, 1993
639 kr
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Twentieth-century Italian poetry is one of the most vital, innovative and influential bodies of literature on the European continent. This volume presents a selection of poems in the original Italian, with introductory material and notes in English.
Dante
Contemporary Perspectives
Häftad, 1997
482 kr
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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 of the landmarks of world literature. The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary …
Vittorio De Sica
Contemporary Perspectives
Av Howard Curle, Howard Curle m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
470 kr
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Recognized as a master of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica is perhaps best known and most respected for his critically acclaimed neorealist films of the period 1946-55. As this anthology reveals, however, his production was remarkably multifaceted. The essays included here - some newly …
Cosmopoiesis
The Renaissance Experiment
Häftad, 2001
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
345 kr
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Cosmopoiesis means world-making, and in this erudite, polemical book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre. The Renaissance is usually read from a Cartesian or Hegelian (via Burckhardt) …
Masters of Two Arts
Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema
Av Carlo Testa
Häftad, 2002
558 kr
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The movie screen has been the forum for many star pairings: Bogart and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn, and Fellini and Kafka. While this latter combination might seem slightly unexpected or improbable at first sight, Carlo Testa's Masters of Two Arts demonstrates that pairings of famed directors and …
Rhetoric of the Decameron
Häftad, 2004
482 kr
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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 Rhetoric of the Decameron offers a sophisticated re-examination of the representations of women, men, gender identity, sexuality, love, hate, morality, …
Italian Modernism
Italian Culture Between Decadentism and Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2004
736 kr
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Italian Modernism was written in response to the need for an historiographic and theoretical reconsideration of the concepts of Decadentismo and the avant-garde within the Italian critical tradition. Focussing on the confrontation between these concepts and the broader notion of international …
Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso
From Public Duty to Private Pleasure
Inbunden, 2004
1124 kr
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In The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo attempts a new interpretation of the history of the renaissance romance epic in northern Italy, focusing on the period's three major chivalric poets. Cavallo challenges previous critical assumptions about the trajectory of the …
Quest for Epic
From Ariosto to Tasso
Av Sergio Zatti, Dennis Looney
Inbunden, 2006
1270 kr
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Translated here for the first time into English, Sergio Zatti's The Quest for Epic is a selection of studies on the two major poets of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, by one of the most important literary critics writing in Italy today. An original and challenging …
Gangster Priest
The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese
Inbunden, 2007
1187 kr
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Widely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three decades, his most sustained filmmaking and the core of his achievement consists of five films on Italian …
Invention of Modern Italian Literature
Strategies of Creative Imagination
Av Gino Tellini
Inbunden, 2007
995 kr
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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 eighteenth- to the twentieth century. The Invention of Modern Italian Literature examines the methods of select Italian writers and considers their …
Invention of Modern Italian Literature
Strategies of Creative Imagination
Av Gino Tellini
Häftad, 2007
493 kr
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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 eighteenth- to the twentieth century. The Invention of Modern Italian Literature examines the methods of select Italian writers and considers their …
After Words
Suicide and Authorship in Twentieth-Century Italy
Inbunden, 2011
930 kr
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After Words investigates the ways in which the suicide of a writer informs critical interpretations of his or her works. Suicide is a revision as well as a form of authorship, both on the part of the author, who has written his/her final scene and revised the 'natural' course of his/her life, and …
Gangster Priest
The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese
Häftad, 2007
575 kr
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Widely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three decades, his most sustained filmmaking and the core of his achievement consists of five films on Italian …
Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy
Häftad, 2007
529 kr
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During the early decades of the twentieth century, Italy produced distinctive innovations in both the intellectual and political realms. On the one hand, Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) and Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) spearheaded a radical rethinking of historicism and philosophical idealism that …
Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy
Häftad, 2007
591 kr
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The history of totalitarian states bears witness to the fact that literature and print media can be manipulated and made into vehicles of mass deception. Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy is the first comprehensive account of how the Fascists attempted to control Italy's literary …
Wrong Door
The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg
Häftad, 2008
547 kr
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The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Bringing together the eleven plays Ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death, this volume directs attention to Ginzburg's unique talent as a …
Living Masks
The Achievement of Pirandello
Häftad, 2008
429 kr
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The Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is undoubtedly one of the most innovative playwrights of the twentieth century and also one of the most complex. While his influence spread throughout modernist and postmodernist works, many first-time audiences and readers are …
