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  • Resistance, Heroism, Loss

    World War II in Italian Literature and Film

    de Thomas Cragin, Laura A. Salsini, Gabrielle Orsi, Virginia Picchietti, Rebecca Bauman, Angela Boscolo Berto, Gianluca Fantoni, Simonetta Milli Konewko, Barbara Zaczek0 ...
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    In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war. Italy’s Republic was born of World War II, its constitution defined by anti-Fascism, its parties self-identified with national Resistance. Because of their importance to the nation’s identity, the nature and meaning of the war have been the focus of great contention, from 1943 to the present day. In ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Neorealism and the "New" Italy

    Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity

    de Simonetta Milli Konewko ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Neorealism and the "New" Italy centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions. Simonetta Milli Konewko proposes that compassion as an emotion may be activated to unify certain individuals and communities and investigates the mechanisms that allowed compassion to operate during the postwar period. Aiming to produce a deeper ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

    de Hendrik Groen ...
    Traducido por Hester Velmans ...
    Series Libro 1 - Hendrik Groen
    In this #1 international bestseller, an old man who is young at heart proves that life doesn't stop once you enter a nursing home, perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove.Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is elderly. But at age 83 and one quarter, this feisty curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums, exasperated by the indignities of aging, Hendrik has ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Hard Times (Centaur Classics)

    de Charles Dickens ...
    The 'terrible mistake' was the contemporary utilitarian philosophy, expounded in "Hard Times" (1854) as the Philosophy of Fact by the hard-headed disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind. But the novel, Dickens's shortest, is more than a polemical tract for the times; the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father is one of Dickens's triumphs. When Louisa, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls prey to ... Leer más

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  • Nancy Cunard

    Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

    de Lois Gordon ...
    Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history."Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edición de Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel

    From 1800 to the Present

    Edición de Timothy Unwin ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Caliban's Voice

    The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures

    de Bill Ashcroft ...
    In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero:"...you taught me language, and my profit on’tIs, I know how to curse. "With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at the centre of post-colonial studies. Can Caliban own Prospero’s language? Can he use it to do more than curse?Caliban’s Voice examines the ways in which post-colonial literatures have transformed English ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Prose and Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein

    de Sheldon Gilman ...
    A Prussian Jew, killed in the second month of the First World War at the ageof 25, 18 years before his father died, apparently of natural causes, and 28years before his mother and two of his siblings were killed by the Nazis,Lichtenstein left no overtly autobiographical writings. Some of his poemsclearly reflect his own painful experiences, both as a civilian and asoldier, and the figure of Kuno ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

    Edición de Florence Ramond Jurney, Karen McPherson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this volume provide an overview and critical account of prevalent trends and theoretical arguments informing current investigations into literary treatments of motherhood and aging. They explore how two key stages in women’s lives—maternity and old age—are narrated and defined in fictions and autobiographical writings by contemporary French and francophone women. Through close ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Lyric in the Renaissance

    From Petrarch to Montaigne

    de Ullrich Langer ...
    Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orléans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne's understanding of the most striking poetry and its relation to his own prose. Instead of relying on conventional notions of Renaissance subjectivity, it ... Leer más

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  • The Culture of Disaster

    de Marie-Hélène Huet ...
    From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent universe. This far-ranging book explores the way writers, thinkers, and artists have responded to the ... Leer más

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