Romance

ISBN: 9788857519951
Published by : Mimesis International
All over is a collection of epic songs, of epinician odes for our day. The heroes praised are boxers, men the author identifies as the last able to truly astound, to induce awe. These epinician odes on Pindaric models are transformed in the making... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780952590170
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Society for Italian Studies Occasional Papers
Volume: 7
Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one fo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904350057
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 11
This work presents a detailed study of the political role of a criminal organization, the Neapolitan Camorra, in its historical context, that of Naples over the last fifty years. In Campania, until 1991, the population tacitly acc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904350040
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 10
In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian historical novel provided an unrivalled number of best sellers and publishing 'phenomena'. The success of the genre is closely related to a more general interest in revisiti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781902653372
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 9
With the Tangentopoli corruption scandals of the early 1990s, Italy is purported recently to have experienced a period of political change comparable to the period immediately following World War II. This latter being the socio-po... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781902653242
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 7
This book takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni. The dramatization of femininity and masculinity is explored in conjunction with that of other social categories (class, the family, age). The plays r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781902653143
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 4
Elio Vittorini holds a major position in twentieth-century Italian literature thanks to both his narrative production and his activity as editor and militant intellectual. The aim of this book is to present the English-speaking re... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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