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Corporeal Bonds
The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante,...
The Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Fascist Italy
Mussolini, Gadda, Vittorini
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The Italian fascists under Benito Mussolini appropriated many aspects of the country’s Catholic religious heritage to exploit the mystique and power of the sacred. One concept that the regime deployed as a core strategy was that of “sacrifice.” In this book, Chiara Ferrari interrogates how the...
by Silvia Valisa
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from...
A Multitude of Women
The Challenges of the Contemporary Italian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
A Multitude of Women looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external influences have assisted Italian women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties between author, text, and readership in the construction of the novel. Stefania Lucamante discusses the valuable...
Italian Women Writers
Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to education and professions for women, particularly in urban areas. Although there was still widespread illiteracy, especially among women in both rural and...
Braudel Revisited
The Mediterranean World 1600-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region...
A Slice of Canada
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Watson Kirkconnell is one of the most familiar figures in the world of Canadian letters. Educated at Queen's and Oxford, he has published several volumes of poetry and poetry translations, was the founding father and first chairman of the Humanities Research Council, a charter member and national...
Awake the Courteous Echo
The Themes Prosody of Comus, Lycidas, and Paradise Regained in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
This Miltonic reference works is the third and final volume in a trilogy dealing with Miltonic analogues. It complements the author's previous compendia of analogues, The Celestial Cycle (on Paradise Lost) and That Invincible Samson (on Samson Agonistes).
Thirty-seven years of research in the...
by Watson Kirkconnell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
An all-inclusive edition of the poetry of Watson Kirkonnell would run to some ten large volumes of original verse and translations. His original verse would fill two volumes the size of this one, and his translated verse—from Icelandic, Italian, Dutch, French, Magyar, Latin, Ukrainian and Polish—would...
by Francesco Ciabattoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In Dante's Journey to Polyphony, Francesco Ciabattoni's erudite analysis sheds light on Dante's use of music in the Divine Comedy. Following the work's musical evolution, Ciabattoni moves from the cacophony of Inferno through the monophony of Purgatory, to the polyphony of Paradise and argues that...
by Richard M Capobianco
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
One of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger was primarily concerned with the ‘question of Being.’ However, recent scholarship has tended to marginalize the importance of the name of Being in his thought. Through a focused reading of Heidegger's texts, and...
Land and Book
Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons...
Inhabited Spaces
Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles...
by John Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world—a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study,...