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  • Toxic Matters

    Narrating Italy's Dioxin

    by Monica Seger ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    In Toxic Matters, Monica Seger considers two Italian environmental disasters: an isolated factory explosion in Seveso, just north of Milan, in 1976 and the ongoing daily toxic emissions from the Ilva steelworks in the Apulian city of Taranto. Both have exposed residents to high concentrations of the persistent organic pollutant known as dioxin. Although different in terms of geography and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Landscapes in Between

    Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film

    by Monica Seger ...
    Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes in Between analyses authors and filmmakers – Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gianni Celati, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati

    Translated by Patrick Barron ...
    by Marina Spunta, Monica Seger, Rebecca West, Matteo Gilebbi, Serenella Iovino, Michele Ronchi Stefanati, Damiano Benvegnù, Thomas Harrison0, Massimo Rizzante1, Franco Arminio2 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions between the urban and rural were being blurred into what Celati terms “a new variety of countryside ... Read more

    $126.99 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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  • Tuscan Spaces

    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

    $32.99 CAD

  • Tight Knit

    Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion

    by Elizabeth L. Krause ...
    The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in Tight Knit, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing "Made in Italy" labels into low-cost items for a thriving fast-fashion industry—all the while adding new ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Mediating the Human Body

    Technology, Communication, and Fashion

    Edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini ...
    The ever-increasing integration of technology and the human body is attracting attention from religious, business, and political leaders around the world, and the topic promises to be a significant social issue in the 21st century. In Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion, editors Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini bring together a thoughtful group ... Read more

    $85.99 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

  • 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

    $55.99 CAD