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Allied encounters
Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.
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Connection
Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture, this book traces the roots of our fascination with—and aversion to—technology.
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Dante's divine comedy
The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes the poet’s travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul aft...
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Delirious naples
An encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity in economic and political decline, despite its revival in the 1990s, that, nonetheless, produces a vital and profound intellectual life and a brilliant and exuberant artistic, lit...
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Finding ferrante
Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Elena Ferrante’s identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels’ literary ambition and politics. Ricciardi reads Ferrante’s fiction as world literature, foregrounding the alleged writer Anita Raja’s work as a transla...
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I'll tell what i saw
Selected translations from Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by thirteen spectacular prints by Michael Mazur.
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In praise of cosmetics
This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebellion against decay, chance, and animal life.
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Killing the moonlight
Tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash
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Marginalia on casanova
Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on eros, memory, disguise, vanity, and the metaphysics of seduction.
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Paris spleen
Paris Spleen is one of the first modern books—formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and relentlessly urban.
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Pier paolo pasolini
Annovi revisits Pasolini’s oeuvre to examine the author’s performance as a way of assuming an antagonistic stance toward forms of artistic, social, and cultural oppression.
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Pre-occupied spaces
This book rethinks Italy’s formation and development on a trans-national map through cultural analysis of travel, living and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic and musical texts. By demonstrating how today’s immigration in Italy is pre-occupied by its past emigration and colonialism, th...
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Review of mein kampf by adolf hitler
Orwell read Hitler—and believed him. In this blistering review from 1940, he lays out what most of polite society refused to face.
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Samuel beckett and the arts
The volume examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and Italian culture from an intermedial perspective.
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Seekers of wonder
Women’s cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheries With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta ...
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The divine mimesis
In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban, political, and deeply personal.
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The ferrante letters
In The Ferrante Letters, four critics create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Elena Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, they strike a tone that ...
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The return of proserpina
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome’s first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of ...
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The stroller of paris
A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue’s luminous love letter to the city he wandered, savored, and immortalized in prose.
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Tyranny of style
A defence of the composer’s duty to the text: not to entertain, not to soothe, but to translate meaning with precision and depth.
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