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Télécharger le livre :  Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture
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Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture


Virginia Picchietti , Laura A. Salsini


This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry,...

Parution : 2017-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Works of Elena Ferrante
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The Works of Elena Ferrante


Stephanie V. Love , Grace Russo Bullaro


This book is the first dedicated volume of academic analysis on the monumental work of Elena Ferrante, Italy's most well-known contemporary writer. The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins brings together the most exciting and innovative research on...

Parution : 2016-12-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Mussolini 1883-1915
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Mussolini 1883-1915


Spencer M. Di Scala , Emilio Gentile , Spencer M. Di Scala


This book describes Mussolini’s little-known radical ideology, including his activities in Switzerland, relationship with revolutionary syndicalism, and radical journalism. It provides an in-depth treatment of the young Benito Mussolini as a revolutionary Socialist and...

Parution : 2016-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Office of Strategic Services and Italian Americans
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The Office of Strategic Services and Italian Americans


Salvatore J. Lagumina


This book explores the contributions of Italian Americans employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Italian Americans fluent in Italian language and customs became integral parts of intelligence operations working behind enemy lines. These...

Parution : 2016-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Italian Modernities
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Italian Modernities


Rosario Forlenza , Bjørn Thomassen


This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism,...

Parution : 2016-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series
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Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series


Barbara Pezzotti


This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country.This study explores the ways in which...

Parution : 2016-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Neorealism and the "New" Italy
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Neorealism and the "New" Italy


Simonetta Milli Konewko


Neorealism and the "New" Italy centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions. Simonetta Milli Konewko proposes that compassion as an emotion may be activated to unify certain individuals and communities...

Parution : 2016-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Objects in Italian Life and Culture
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Objects in Italian Life and Culture


Paolo Bartoloni


This book makes visible the hidden relations between things and individuals through a discussion of creative processes and cultural practices. Italian life and culture are filled with objects that cross, accompany, facilitate or disrupt experience, desires, and dreams....

Parution : 2016-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Fascist Hybridities
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Fascist Hybridities


Kenneth A. Loparo


Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at stigmatization were...

Parution : 2016-02-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Two Mafias
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The Two Mafias


Salvatore Lupo


A realistic understanding of the mafia must avoid depictions both of a monolithic organization and of localized, isolated groups. Here, renowned historian Salvatore Lupo analyzes the mafia as a network of varied relationships and institutions, the result of a complex...

Parution : 2015-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Italian Birds of Passage
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Italian Birds of Passage


Simona Frasca


This book reviews the period from the unification of Italy to the fascist era through significant Neapolitan performers such as Gilda Mignonette and Enrico Caruso. It traces the transformation of a popular tradition written in dialect into a popular tradition, written...

Parution : 2014-09-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Thinking Italian Animals
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Thinking Italian Animals


D. Amberson , E. Past


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...

Parution : 2014-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  George L. Mosse's Italy
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George L. Mosse's Italy


L. Benadusi , G. Caravale


Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences contemporary research. This volume provides a re-examination of his historiographical production and an analysis of his...

Parution : 2014-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Berlusconism and Italy
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Berlusconism and Italy


G. Orsina


From the outset, Silvio Berlusconi's career was expected to be short, and he has been considered finished several times, only to have reemerged victorious. This fascinating political and historical study shows that Berlusconi's success and resilience have lain in his...

Parution : 2014-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Forging Shoah Memories
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Forging Shoah Memories


S. Lucamente


Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a...

Parution : 2014-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen
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Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen


Maristella Cantini


Featuring essays by top scholars and interviews with acclaimed directors, this book examines Italian women's authorship in film and their visions of reality. The contributors use feminist film criticism in the analysis of their works and give direct voices to the...

Parution : 2013-12-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Italy and the Mediterranean
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Italy and the Mediterranean


N. Bouchard , V. Ferme


The Mediterranean has always loomed large in the history and culture of Italy, and since the 1980s this relationship has been represented in ever more varied forms as both national and regional identities have evolved within a globalized context. This interdisciplinary...

Parution : 2013-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Italian Army in Slovenia
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The Italian Army in Slovenia


Kenneth A. Loparo


This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II. It moves from the decision of the Italians to annex Slovenia in 1941, through local resistance and brutal reaction against civilians, to the...

Parution : 2013-07-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture
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Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture


R. Glynn


Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural...

Parution : 2013-02-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Postcolonial Italy
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Postcolonial Italy


Cristina Lombardi-Diop


This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies,...

Parution : 2012-12-06
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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