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  • Elemental Narratives

    Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy

    by Enrico Cesaretti ...
    Series series AnthropoScene
    Over the past century, the Italian landscape has undergone exceedingly rapid transformations, shifting from a mostly rural environment to a decidedly modern world. This changing landscape is endowed with a narrative agency that transforms how we understand our surroundings. Situated at the juncture of Italian studies and ecocriticism and following the recent “material turn” in the environmental ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Italy and the Environmental Humanities

    Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

    by Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, Elena Past, Marco Armiero, Franco Arminio, Professor Patrick Barron, PhD, Damiano Benvegnù, Viktor Berberi0, Rosi Braidotti1, Luca Bugnone2, Almo Farina3, Sophia Maxine Farmer4, Serena Ferrando5, Tiziano Fratus6, Matteo Gilebbi7, Andrea Hajek8, Marcus Hall9, Andrea Lerda0, Roberto Marchesini1, Marco Moro2, Carlo Petrini3, Monica Seger4, Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan5, Professor Pasquale Verdicchio, PhD6 ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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    Literary Constructions of Space

    by Silvia M. Ross ...
    An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single ... Read more

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  • The Cultures of Italian Migration

    Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives

    Edited by Graziella Parati, Anthony Julian Tamburri ...
    The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective "Italian" to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like "home," "identity," "subjectivity," and "otherness" eschew stereotyping. This volume demonstrates that interpretations of old migrations are necessary ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness

    The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis

    by Letizia Modena ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Urban Narratives and the Spaces of Rome

    Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City

    by Gregory Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book foregrounds the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini to study the Roman periphery and examine the relevance of Pasolini’s vision in the construction of subaltern identity and experience. It analyses the contemporary Italian society to understand the problem of social exclusion of marginal communities.Narrative studies are at the core of the contemporary social science research. This book uses ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Living Memory

    The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

    by Jillian R. Cavanaugh ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection• Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival• Introduces the original concept of the “social ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies

    The Arts and History, Volume 2

    Edited by Graziella Parati ...
    Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian studies and students interested in a cultural studies approach. Divided in four sections, the articles ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film

    by Barbara Alfano ...
    The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Ecocriticism and Italy

    Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation

    by Professor Serenella Iovino ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Written by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural ... Read more

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  • Italian Ecocinema

    Beyond the Human

    by Elena Past ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    Ecocriticism and film studies unite in this examination of five Italian films and the environmental questions they raise.Entangled in the hybrid fields of ecomedia studies and material ecocriticism, Elena Past examines five Italian films shot on location and ponders the complex relationships that the production crews developed with the filming locations and the nonhuman cast members. She uses ... Read more

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  • Venice and the Anthropocene

    An ecocritical guide

    by Serenella Iovino, AA. VV. ...
    What does Venice look like when observed from the perspective of climate change, environmental collapse, and human-animal relations in an age of industrialization and mass extinction? That is, as a privileged observatory of the Anthropocene? This guide, composed of several voices, forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of Venice and its Lagoon. What does the Venetian School of Painting ... Read more

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