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  • Channelling Nature

    Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry

    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    What if poetry could teach us to live differently – alongside plants, animals, and water? Channelling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry explores how twentieth-century Italian literature can be a powerful medium for ecological thought.Through close readings of poets like Andrea Zanzotto, Daria Menicanti, and Milo De Angelis, environmental and Italian studies professor Serena ... Leer más

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  • Italy and the Environmental Humanities

    Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Tuscan Spaces

    Literary Constructions of Space

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Vulnerability as generativity

    Undoing parenthood in a gylanic perspective

    This book focuses on parenthood and generativity, considered not only a set of biological functions, but as human and socio-cultural capabilities above and beyond gender differences. The authors reconsider in particular the institution of motherhood, emphasizing the historical and social function of women. Alongside a refl ection on the gender role of women as mothers and wives, this volume ... Leer más

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  • Living Memory

    The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection• Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival• Introduces the original concept of the “social ... Leer más

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  • Urban Narratives and the Spaces of Rome

    Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film

    The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As ... Leer más

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  • Ecocriticism and Italy

    Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation

    Series series Environmental Cultures
    Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Written by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural ... Leer más

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  • Marvelous Bodies

    Italy's New Migrant Cinema

    de Vetri Nathan ...
    Series Libro 70 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films ... Leer más

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  • Thinking Italian Animals

    Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film

    Edición de D. Amberson, E. Past ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. ... Leer más

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  • Toxic Matters

    Narrating Italy's Dioxin

    de Monica Seger ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    In Toxic Matters, Monica Seger considers two Italian environmental disasters: an isolated factory explosion in Seveso, just north of Milan, in 1976 and the ongoing daily toxic emissions from the Ilva steelworks in the Apulian city of Taranto. Both have exposed residents to high concentrations of the persistent organic pollutant known as dioxin. Although different in terms of geography and ... Leer más

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  • Translating Myself and Others

    de 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 ... Leer más

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