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  • 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

    $42.39 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

    $126.39 CAD

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    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    In the tradition of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes an urgent plea from internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis to preserve Venice’s future.What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? Venetians are increasingly abandoning their hometown — there’s now only one resident for every 140 visitors — and Venice’s fragile fate has become ... Read more

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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 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

  • Wasteocene

    Stories from the Global Dump

    by Marco Armiero ...
    Series series Elements in Environmental Humanities
    Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in their entanglements with the environment? Looking at this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity, more than the Anthropocene, we will discover ... Read more

    $23.99 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

    $101.68 CAD

  • Stupendous, Miserable City

    Pasolini’s Rome

    by John David Rhodes ...
    John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini—but it’s not the classical Rome you imagine. Stupendous, Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-century Roman urban development. The book focuses first on the Fascist period, when populations were moved out of the urban ... Read more

    $21.99 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

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Year 3000

    A Dream

    by Paolo Mantegazza ...
    Translated by David Jacobson ...
    Series series Bison Frontiers of Imagination
    First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the United Planetary States to celebrate their “mating union,” encounter the marvels of cultural and scientific advances along the way. ... Read more

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  • 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

    $86.99 CAD