Italian category: 1892 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and renowned memoirist, is one of the most widely read writers of post-World War II Italy. His works are characterized by the lean, dispassionate eloquence with which he approaches his experience of incarceration in Auschwitz. His memoirs--as well as his poetry and fiction...
Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi
The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in His Auschwitz Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi’s thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.e., his short works of science fiction and fantasy...
Pre-Occupied Spaces
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries)
Honorable Mention for the Howard R. Marraro Prize
By linking Italy’s long history of emigration to all...
Pizza
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
You can pick Chicago deep dish, Sicilian, or New York-style; pan crust or thin crust; anchovies or pepperoni. There are countless ways to create the dish called pizza, as well as a never-ending debate on the best way of cooking it. Now Carol Helstosky documents the fascinating history and cultural...
The Scarpetta Cookbook
125 Recipes from the Acclaimed Restaurant
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Italian recipes from the Food Network star that show “you don’t need expensive ingredients or complicated methods to produce delicious food” (The Miami Herald).
In addition to appearances on Chopped and Bravo’s Top Chef, Scott Conant is known for founding Scarpetta—cited on such lists...
by Rachel A. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
One of the most celebrated Italian writers of the early Romantic period, Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827) was known primarily as a novelist, a poet, and a nationalist. Following the Napoleonic Wars, he lived in self-exile in England during the last decade of his life. There he wrote numerous critical essays...
Hemingway's Italy
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In 1918, a one-month stint with the American Red Cross ambulance corps at the Italian front marked the beginning of Ernest Hemingway's fascination with Italy—a place second only to Upper Michigan in stimulating his lifelong passion for geography and local expertise. Hemingway's Italy offers a thorough...
At Oma's Table
More than 100 Recipes and Remembrances from a Jewish Family's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
An intimate collection of Jewish family recipes spanning three generations.
Unlike many in her generation, Doris Schechter was lucky enough to grow up knowing one of her grandparents. Polish by birth, Leah Goldstein-or Oma, as Doris called her-was a capable, nononsense woman and an amazing...
Fabulous Ireland- «Ibernia Fabulosa»
Imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
According to Petrarch, the Father of the Renaissance, Ireland was almost as well known to the Italians as Italy itself. Visiting Ireland from the comfort of their armchairs, his followers thus knew for a fact that the Irish ate their fathers and slept with their mothers, were welcoming and inhospitable,...
Writing Beloveds
Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in...
Davide Rondoni
Art in the Movement of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In this monograph, Gregory M. Pell provides a full-length study on the poetry of Davide Rondoni, one of Italy’s most active contemporary writers and thinkers. This book includes comparative studies of Jorie Graham, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Charles Wright, John Ashbery, Patrizia Fazzi, and Mario Luzi....
Annie Chartres Vivanti
Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), who
brought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel by
addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and international
levels, and by creating work that distanced itself...
Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity
Eating Disorders in Contemporary Womens Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted by writers across a variety of languages and cultures, since before the medicalisation of eating disorders in the late nineteenth century to the present day. This cross-cultural volume explores the fictional...
The Tuscan Year
Life and Food in an Italian Valley
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1994
The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season's activities month by month: curing prosciutto and making salame in January, planting and cheesemaking in March, harvesting and threshing corn in July, hunting...