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Gadda, Beckett and Fractured Self-Narrative [Hardback]
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975998
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 29
While the writing of Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is renowned for its linguistic and narrative proliferation, the best-known works of Samuel Beckett (1906-89) are minimalist, with a clear fondness for subtraction and abstraction... .... Learn More -
Caravaggio in Film and Literature: Popular Culture's Appropriation of a Baroque Genius [Hardback]
Laura Rorato (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781909662001
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 30
Although fictional responses to Caravaggio date back to the painter’s lifetime (1571-1610), it was during the second half of the twentieth century that interest in him took off outside the world of art history. In this new m... .... Learn More -
The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre [Hardback]
Donatella Fischer (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975806
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 27
The central importance of the actor-author is a distinctive feature of Italian theatrical life, in all its eclectic range of regional cultures and artistic traditions. The fascination of the figure is that he or she stands on both... .... Learn More -
Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde [Hardback]
John Picchione (Editor); Paolo Chirumbolo (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975783
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 26
Poet, novelist, theorist, playwright, translator, politician, and teacher, Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010) is one of the most original and influential Italian intellectuals of the second post-war period. An ardent and unremitting h... .... Learn More -
Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment [Hardback]
George Corbett (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975790
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 25
Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God’s divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and that all relig... .... Learn More -
Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini [Hardback]
Emma Bond (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975387
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 24
If Madame Bovary’s death in Flaubert’s 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an entirely new set of i... .... Learn More -
Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder [Hardback]
Ruth Glynn (Editor); Giancarlo Lombardi (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975271
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 23
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy’s experience of political violence in the period known as the ‘years of lead’ (1969-c.1983). This uniquely... .... Learn More -
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda [Hardback]
Deborah Amberson (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975264
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 22
Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy’s beautiful garden of literature. Gadda’s self-ch... .... Learn More -
Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers [Hardback]
Ann Hallimore Caesar (Editor); Gabriella Romani (Editor); Jennifer Burns (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540746
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 21
The Unification of Italy in 1870 heralded a period of unprecedented change. While successive Liberal governments pursued imperial ventures and took Italy into World War One on the Allied side, on the domestic front technological a... .... Learn More -
Ugo Foscolo and English Culture [Hardback]
Sandra Parmegiani (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540609
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 20
The history of the literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated early modern representative in Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827). Foscolo’s translation of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through F... .... Learn More