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  • New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema

    Edited by Danielle Hipkins, Roger Pitt ...
    Series Book 20 - Italian Modernities
    The figure of the child has long been a mainstay of Italian cinema, conventionally interpreted as a witness of adult shortcomings, a vessel of innocence, hope and renewal, or an avatar of nostalgia for the (cinematic) past. New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema challenges these settled categories of interpretation and reconsiders the Italian canon as it relates to the child. The book draws on ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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    City of Secrets

    by Jane Tylus ...
    Jane Tylus's Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys of a town both medieval and modern.As Tylus leads us through the city, she shares her passion for ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King Oedipus

    With linked Table of Contents

    by Sophocles ...
    Widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek tragedies, ‘King Oedipus’ (or ‘Oedipus Rex’) is the first play in the Oedipus trilogy (followed by ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ and then ‘Antigone’). After defeating the Sphinx and freeing the kingdom of Thebes from her curse, the flawed hero unwittingly fulfills a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Giorgio Scerbanenco

    Urban Space, Violence and Gender Identity in Post-War Italian Crime Fiction

    by Marco Paoli ...
    Series Book 8 - Moving Texts / Testi mobili
    The works of Giorgio Scerbanenco repeatedly articulate and explore the implications of new forms of criminality that emerged in Italy’s post-war transformation towards its «economic miracle». An indepth analysis of Scerbanenco’s Duca Lamberti series constitutes the critical focus of this study, and in particular the psychological resonances of the role played by the author’s controversial ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Eccentricity and Sameness

    Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s–1930s

    by Charlotte Ross ...
    Series Book 22 - Italian Modernities
    Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has been previously asserted. Focusing on texts published between 1860 and 1939, the author traces and analyses the evolution of discourses on female ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Dubbing

    Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy

    by Carla Mereu Keating ...
    Series Book 20 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates surrounding the use of the Italian language, the rebirth of the national film industry and cinema’s mass popularity.Through the ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Approaching Transnational America in Performance

    Edited by Birgit M. Bauridl, Pia Wiegmink ...
    The volume is uniquely located at the interdisciplinary crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies. As both a method and an object of study, performance deepens our understanding of transnational phenomena and America’s position in the world. The thirteen original contributions make use of the field’s vast potential and critically explore a wide array of cultural, ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • New Crops, Old Fields

    Reimagining Irish Folklore

    Edited by Conor Caldwell, Eamon Byers ...
    Series Book 80 - Reimagining Ireland
    From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions of Irish folklore are engaged in a constant process of regeneration, where the old and the new, the oral, the textual and the ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Vox & Silentium

    Études de linguistique et littérature romanes – Studi di linguistica e letteratura romanza – Estudios de lingueística y literatura románicas

    Edited by Gina Maria Schneider, Maria Chiara Janner, Bénédicte Élie ...
    Voix et silence se considèrent traditionnellement comme deux phénomènes opposés, s’excluant l’un l’autre. Les contributions contenues dans ce volume se proposent de dépasser une telle conception, en se centrant non seulement sur la valeur et les fonctions que les deux concepts peuvent recouvrir, mais aussi sur la relation complexe qui existe entre eux en linguistique et en littérature. Outre les ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Italian Modernism

    Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde

    Edited by Luca Somigli, Mario Moroni ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Italian Modernism was written in response to the need for an historiographic and theoretical reconsideration of the concepts of Decadentismo and the avant-garde within the Italian critical tradition. Focussing on the confrontation between these concepts and the broader notion of international modernism, the essays in this important collection seek to understand this complex phase of literary and ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD