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  • Dante's Idea of Friendship

    The Transformation of a Classical Concept

    by Filippa Modesto ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    In the ancient world, friendship was a virtue of great philosophical importance. Aristotle wrote extensively about it, as did Cicero. Their conception of friendship as a relationship based on reason and virtue was transformed by Christianity into a connection based on the mutual love of an individual and God.In Dante’s Idea of Friendship, Filippa Modesto offers sharp readings of the Commedia, Vita ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • 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

    $50.99 USD

  • 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

    $48.99 USD

  • Fictions of Youth

    Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms

    by Simona Bondavalli ...
    Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli’s book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and imagined, shaped Pasolini’s poetics and critical positions and shows how Pasolini’s works became the basis for representations of contemporary young ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Unpolitical

    On the Radical Critique of Political Reason

    by Massimo Cacciari ...
    Translated by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Italian Futurism and the First World War

    by Selena Daly ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Selena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front.Beginning with the outbreak of war in 1914, Italian Futurism and the First World War provides vivid accounts of Futurist experiences through ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Italian Women Writers

    Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910

    by Katharine Mitchell ...
    Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to education and professions for women, particularly in urban areas. Although there was still widespread illiteracy, especially among women in both rural and urban areas, there emerged a generation of women writers whose domestic fiction and journalism ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

    Life Sentences and Their Geographies

    by Robin Pickering-Iazzi ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Speaking Spirits

    Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy

    by Sherry Roush ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors but in order to express partisan or politically dangerous arguments.In Speaking Spirits, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala

    The Comic Scenarios

    by Natalie Crohn Schmitt ...
    The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism, the commedia dell’arte is often assumed to be a superficial comic style. With Befriending the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Enlightening Encounters

    Photography in Italian Literature

    Edited by Nancy Pedri, Giorgia Alu ...
    Enlightening Encounters traces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day. Investigating the ways in which Italian literature has responded to photographic practice and aesthetics, the contributors use a wide range of theoretical perspectives to examine a variety of canonical and non-canonical authors and a broad selection of literary ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Italy and the Classical Tradition

    Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600

    by Bloomsbury Publishing ...
    Italy's original fascination with its cultural origins in Greece and Rome first created what is now known as 'the Classical tradition' - the pervasive influence of ancient art and thought on later times. In response to a growing interest in Classical reception, this volume provides a timely reappraisal of the Greek and Roman legacies in Italian literary history. There are fresh insights on the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD