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  • My Language Is a Jealous Lover

    by Adrián N. Bravi ...
    Translated by Victoria Offredi Poletto, Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi ...
    Series series Other Voices of Italy
    Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere.My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

    by Ron Kubati, Ashna Ali, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah, Basir Ahang, Adrian Bravi, Simone Brioni, Jennifer Burns, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder0, Clarissa Clò1, Daniele Comberiati2, Marta Cariello3, Lidia Curti4, Vera Lúcia de Oliveira5, Silvia Guslandi6, Gëzim Hajdari7, Gabriella Kuruvilla8, Amara Lakhous9, Fulvio Pezzarossa0, Wendy Pojmann1, Lidia Radi2, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel3, Lucia Re4, Kevin Regan5, Caterina Romeo6, James Walker7, Enrico Zammarchi8, Eleanor Paynter9 ...
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    Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity—individual and national—and belonging. It is also an affirmation of diversity. The editors of this volume have brought together articles that analyze the literature of migration as well as creative pieces by recognized authors who have a lived experience of migration. English speakers will find their own societal ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • The Written World and the Unwritten World

    Essays

    by Italo Calvino ...
    “Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and new.” —Publishers WeeklyA rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature.An extraordinary collection of essays, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

    Fourth Edition

    by Roland Greene ...
    Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • This I Believe

    An A to Z of a Life

    by Carlos Fuentes ...
    In this masterly, deeply personal, and provocative book, the internationally renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whose work has been called “a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen” (Newsweek), steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped our time, and his extraordinary life and fiercest passions.Arranged alphabetically from “Amore” to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Stories of Art

    by James Elkins ...
    Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Italo Calvino

    Letters, 1941–1985

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Translated by Martin McLaughlin ...
    The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Translation

    Translators on Their Work and What It Means

    Edited by Esther Allen, Susan Bernofsky ...
    The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, Clare Cavanagh, David Bellos, and José Manuel Prieto. Discussing the process and possibilities of their art, they cast translation as a fine ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Surrealist Women

    An International Anthology

    Edited by Penelope Rosemont ...
    Series series Surrealist Revolution Series
    Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project—achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants—perhaps ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Languages at Play in the Theatre

    by Marvin Carlson ...
    Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations. The use of multiple languages in the contemporary theatre is in part a reflection of a more globalized culture, but it also calls attention to how the mixing of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Federico Fellini

    Painting in Film, Painting on Film

    by Hava Aldouby ...
    Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.” In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini’s films as sequences of “pictures” that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir of visual imagery. Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Methodologies of Art

    An Introduction

    by Laurie Schneider Adams ...
    Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD