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	Legenda Italian Perspectives 14 Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture edited by Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta In our highly literate culture, orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance - theatre, film, television, story-telling, structured play - make us ask what is the relation between improvisation and pre-meditation, between transcription and textualization, between rehearsal, recollection and re-narration. The challenge of writing orality has a technical side - how do young writers 'represent' the spoken language of their ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Italian Perspectives 13 From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante by Claire Honess Dante's political thought has long constituted a major area of interest for Dante studies, yet the poet's political views have traditionally been considered a self-contained area of study and viewed in isolation from the poet's other concerns. Consequently, the symbolic and poetic values which Dante attaches to political structures have been largely ignored or marginalised by Dante criticism. This omission is addressed here by Claire Honess, ... Hardback. Price GB £48.00
	Legenda Italian Perspectives 12 Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970's edited by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio Commonly referred to collectively as the years of lead, the 1970s have been seen as a self-contained parenthesis in Italian history, which was dominated by political violence and terrorism. The seventeen essays in this wide-ranging collection adopt different scholarly perspectives to challenge this monolithic view and uncover the complexity of the decade, probing into its many facets while also re-evaluating political conflict. The volume brings ... Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £48.00

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