Romance
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Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood [Paperback]
Claudia Nocentini (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9781902653235
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 6
Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a constant visual source for Calvino's fiction. In its recognizable pattern of sea-city-hills, it appears in sixteen works written over a period of thirty two years. This recurring them... .... Learn More -
Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste [Paperback]
Elizabeth Schächter (Editor)
£26.00ISBN: 9781902653129
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 5
Italo Svevo, although neglected until the last few years of his life, is now acknowledged as a writer of international stature alongside his contemporaries Kafka, Proust and Joyce. These essays focus on his three novels, Una Vita,... .... Learn More -
Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative [Paperback]
Rita Wilson (Author)
£26.50ISBN: 9781902653136
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 3
Since the early 1980s, the novel has been deemed by many Italian women writers to be the most apt vehicle for creating positive images of the future of women. The novel becomes the space for confession, while at the same time allowing greater ... .... Learn More -
Nelle Carceri di G. B. Piranesi [Paperback]
Silvia Gavuzzo-Stewart (Editor)
£27.50ISBN: 9781902653006
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 2
G. B. Piranesi is one of the most inventive artists of the eighteenth century. The Carceri, or Prisons, are a set of etchings believed by many to be Piranesi's most original work. The extraordinary evocative power of the Carceri h... .... Learn More -
The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi: 1817-1837 [Paperback]
Prue Shaw (Editor)
£27.50ISBN: 9780901286970
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 1
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy's great poet of the Romantic age, is the author of some of the most beautiful and best-loved poems in the Italian language and some of the most remarkable letters in European literature. The interest of the... .... Learn More -
Dante's Second Love: The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio [Paperback]
Peter Dronke (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9780952590125
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Society for Italian Studies Occasional Papers
Volume: 2
Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio ; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile , Dante's 'second love'; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of the third and fourth treatises of the Conviv... .... Learn More -
Sguardi Sull'Italia: Miscellanea dedicata a Francesco Villari [Paperback]
G. Bedani (Editor); Brian Richardson (Editor); Zygmunt G. Baranski (Editor); Anna Laura Lepschy (Editor)
£21.50ISBN: 9780952590132
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Society for Italian Studies Occasional Papers
Volume: 3
The third occasional paper in the series for Italian Studies, this volume brings together essays dedicated to the work of Francesco Villari, discussing subjects such as women and books in Renaissance Italy, pluralism, narrative and symbolism. .... Learn More -
Racine: Theatre et Poesie. Actes du troiseme colloque Vinaver, Manchester 1987 [Hardback]
Christine M. Hill (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205779
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The 1987 The Vinaver Colloquium on Racine, held in Manchester in 1987, brought together an international gathering of scholars, whose contributions ranged over a variety of topics, including lexis, prosody and musicality, theatrical technique a... .... Learn More -
Victor Hugo et la Grande-Bretagne. Actes du deuxieme colloque Vinaver, Manchester 1985 [Hardback]
A. R. W. James (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205311
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
In 1985, a conference entitled "Comment n'aimerais-je pas l'Angleterre! " Victor Hugo et la Grande-Bretagne was organised in Manchester to celebrate the Victor Hugo centenary, as the second in a series of Vinaver Colloquia. The papers presented... .... Learn More -
Diderot, Dialogue and Debate [Hardback]
D. J. Adams (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205298
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Diderot is widely praised as a master of lively, dramatic and original dialogue. This book studies the developing role of dialogue in his early writings (1745 to 1754). Diderot's earlier experiments with the dialogue form, meticulously charted ... .... Learn More
