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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “saskia ziolkowski”
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  • Kafka’s Italian Progeny

    by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka’s Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to reconsider its dimensions and influencers. Exploring a distinct but unexamined Kafkan tradition in modern Italian literature, it brings Italian literary works into larger debates and reorients the ... Read more

    $69.89 USD

  • Natalia Ginzburg's Global Legacies

    Edited by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva, Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Offering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg’s works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry. The first section, “World Literature and World Making,” uses translation practices, world literature, and transnational studies to theorize the growing popularity of Ginzburg. The ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing

    Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art

    by Claude Cazalé Bérard, Sarah Carey, Flavia Cartoni, Gandolfo Cascio, Francesco Chillemi, Giovanna De Luca, Manuele Gragnolati, Thomas Harrison, Claudia Karagoz, Kenise Lyons, Gaetana Marrone, Daniele Morante, Maria Morelli, Gabrielle Orsi, Lorenzo Salvagni, Hanna Serkowska, Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, Sharon Wood, Giuliana Zagra, Saskia Ziolkowski ...
    Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema, theatre, and the visual arts; new critical approaches to her four novels; treatment of body and sexual politics; and Morante’s prophetic ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • Translating Myself and Others

    by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime

    by Francesca Billiani, Laura Pennacchietti ...
    Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force ... Read more

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  • The History of Futurism

    The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies

    by Günter Berghaus, Monica Biasiolo, Francesca Bravi, Sascha Bru, Silvia Contarini, Eleonora Conti, Patricia Gaborik, Laura Greco, Kyle Hall, Stefano Magni, Florian Mussgnug, Davide Podavini, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Beatrice Sica, Teresa Spignoli, Dirk Vanden Berghe, Federico Luisetti, Marjorie Perloff, Walter L. Adamson ...
    Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the movement by exploring the history of the movement, the events leading up to the movement, and the lasting impact it has had as well as the ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Arduous Tasks

    Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony

    by Lina N Insana ...
    One of twentieth-century Italy's greatest thinkers, Primo Levi (1919-1987) started reflecting on the Holocaust almost immediately after his return home from the year he survived in Auschwitz. Levi's powerful Holocaust testimonials reveal his preoccupation with processes of translation, in the form of both embedded and book-length renderings of texts relevant to Holocaust survival. In Arduous Tasks ... Read more

    $74.19 USD

  • Italian Crime Fiction

    Edited by Giuliana Pieri ...
    Series series International Crime Fictions
    Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays focus on specific topics that provide readers with a sense of the development of the genre in the second half of the 20th-century and current trends in ... Read more

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  • Pasolini

    The Sacred Flesh

    by Stefania Benini ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini examines his corporeal vision of the sacred, focusing on his immanent interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and the “sacred flesh” of Christ in both Passion and Death as the ... Read more

    $58.39 USD

  • Marco Bellocchio

    The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

    by Clodagh Brook ...
    Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

    A Bloody Journey

    by Barbara Pezzotti ...
    By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Drama of the Assimilated Jew

    Giorgio Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara

    by Lucienne Kroha ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His personal experience of this period and its aftermath was fundamental to the creation of his masterwork, the Romanzo ... Read more

    $65.59 USD