10,280円 In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Beckett’s work, with a specific focus on the twentieth century. Located at the intersection of historical avant-garde movements and a renewed interest in traditi...

903円 Le testimonianze raccolte qui sono frammenti di vita vera, lontane dalla spettacolarizzazione, ma vicine a quell'umanità profonda che riconosciamo e ammiriamo. È un testo che non solo si legge, ma si vive, e che ci accompagna ben oltre l'ultima pagina, lasciando un segno indelebile e un messaggio...

2,200円 Il romanzo italiano degli anni Cinquanta prosegue l'onda lunga del realismo inaugurata da Moravia nel '29 con Gli indifferenti: un realismo che da un lato fa sua la visione del mondo modernista (relativismo, messa in crisi dell'antropocentrismo, verità irraggiungibile) e dall'altra la declina all...

9,578円 En este libro se recogen estudios de autores muy relevantes de la literatura italiana del Novecientos, así como un apéndice que contiene dos estudios sobre dos autores norteamericanos bastante presentes en la literatura europea del siglo XX. Se trata de escritores que han destacado por su alta ca...

10,280円 Shakespeare’s Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman’s Debate investigates the echoes of two early modern discoursesーparadoxical writing and the woman’s question or querelle des femmesーin the representation of the “Shakespearean shrew” in The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About N...

9,286円 Food and Emotions in Italian Women’s Writing discusses the relevance of food imagery in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women’s history and creativity. In this groundbreaking work, Patrizia Samb...

11,939円 In Boccaccio Defends Literature, Brenda Deen Schildgen contends that Giovanni Boccaccio’s significant contribution to literary history remains underappreciated. The book asserts that Boccaccio refuted the detractors that condemned poetry as immoral, irrational, and even demonic, highlighting inst...

8,623円 The Gothic, proliferating across different literary, socio-cultural, and scientific spaces, permeated and influenced the project of Italian nation-building, casting a dark and pervasive shadow on Italian history. Gothic Italy explores the nuances, contradictions, and implications of the conflict ...

8,591円 With few exceptions, the unsurpassable inequality between cultures on the literary field and in the imaginary Republic of Letters remains underemphasized and a more radical reconsideration is needed with regard to vernacular and peripheral forms of understanding cosmopolitan principles. The contr...

12,819円 Während Männlichkeit früher vorrangig mit positiven Eigenschaften attribuiert worden ist, wird sie nun zunehmend als eine negative oder gar bedrohliche gesellschaftliche Kraft wahrgenommen. Der Autor dieser Studie greift diese gesellschaftliche Tendenz auf und untersucht anhand einer Reihe von li...

12,819円 Der Schweizer Literaturkritiker Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1783) befasste sich fünf Jahrzehnte lang damit, seine Übersetzung des epischen Gedichtes Paradise Lost (1667) von John Milton (1608–1674) verbessernd zu überarbeiten. Das Buch geht der Frage nach, welche Bearbeitungen Bodmer von Auflage zu...

4,080円 Joan Fuster offers us in Poetry, Aphorisms, Diary, Vignettes and Drawings a collection of maxims, apothegms, and aphorisms that constitute a series of philosophical reflections on a variety of topics. The author purposely rejects a fully-developed narrative style as well as a more methodical and ...