Author: Guia RisariPublisher:
ISBN: 9788858038956
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : it
Pages : 192
Book Description
Le più belle fiabe regionali italiane. Ediz. a colori
Author: Guia RisariPublisher:
ISBN: 9788858038956
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : it
Pages : 192
Book Description
Fiabe regionali italiane
Author: Le più belle fiabe di tutto il mondo. Ediz. a colori
Author: Laura GiorgiPublisher: Le grandi raccolte
ISBN: 9788858022689
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 313
Book Description
Le più belle fiabe. Ediz. a colori
Author: Richard ScarryPublisher:
ISBN: 9788804743125
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 160
Book Description
Le più belle fiabe classiche. Ediz. a colori
Author: The Conservatory of Santa Teresa
Author: Bilenchi, RomanoPublisher: Firenze University Press
ISBN: 8866558230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This volume is the first translation of Romano Bilenchi’s 1940 masterpiece to appear in English. This is surprising since The Conservatory of Santa Teresa is much more than an invaluable historical document of life in provincial Tuscany around the time of the First World War. It is truly one of the most important works of fiction published in Italy under Fascism. In telling of the pre-adolescent Sergio’s encounter with the larger world of sex, politics, and the violence and cruelty of adult life, Bilenchi succeeds in representing a universal paradigm, that of the clash of innocence with experience. But what makes Sergio’s trajectory unique is that he goes through it in the company of three extraordinary women who are at once femmes fatales and benevolent guides: his mother, his aunt, and his tutor, all almost unbearably beautiful, as least in Sergio’s eyes. These women, plus the dazzling landscape of the Sienese countryside as captured by Bilenchi, make Sergio’s journey an enviable even if sometimes painful and bewildering experience.
Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese
Author: Vilma De GasperinPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191655112
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book examines the vre of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) from her first literary writings in the Thirties to her great novels in the Nineties. The analysis focusses on two interweaving core themes, loss and the Other. It begins with the shaping of personal loss of an Other following death, separation, abandonment, coupled with melancholy for life's transience as depicted in autobiographical works and in her masterpiece Il porto di Toledo. The book then addresses Ortese's literary engagement with social themes in realist stories set in post-war Naples in her collection Il mare non bagna Napoli and then explores her continuing preoccupation with socio-ethical issues, imbued with autobiographical elements, in non-realist texts, including her masterful novels L'Iguana, Il cardillo addolorato and Alonso e i visionari The book combines theme and genre analysis, highlighting Ortese's adoption and hybridization of diverse literary forms such as poetry, the novel, the short story, the essay, autobiography, realism, fairy tales, fantasy, allegory. In her work Ortese weaves an ongoing dialogue with literary and non-literary works, through direct quotations, allusions, echoes, adoption of motifs and topoi. The book thus highlights the intertextual relationship with her sources: Leopardi, Dante, Petrarch, Manzoni, Collodi, Montale, Serao; Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Blake, Joyce, Conrad, Melville, Poe, Hawthorne, Hardy; Manrique, Gongora, de Quevedo, Villalón, Bello, Cantar del mio Cid; Heine, Valery, Puccini's Madam Butterfly, folklore, popular songs, and the Bible. Ortese thus shapes her literary themes in the background of social, political and economic upheavals over six decades of Italian history, culminating in an allegorical critique of modernity and a call for a renewed bond between humans and the Other.
Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel
Author: Silvia ValisaPublisher: Toronto Italian Studies
ISBN: 9781442649224
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, this book is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Early Cinema and the "National"
Author: Richard AbelPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0861969154
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Essays on “how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed ‘communities of nationality’ . . . recommended.” —Choice While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the “National” is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visual and narrative forms, but also international geopolitics, exhibition and marketing practices, and pressing linkages to national imageries. The essays in this richly illustrated landmark anthology are devoted to reconsidering the nation as a framing category for writing cinema history. Many of the 34 contributors show that concepts of a national identity played a role in establishing the parameters of cinema’s early development, from technological change to discourses of stardom, from emerging genres to intertitling practices. Yet, as others attest, national meanings could often become knotty in other contexts, when concepts of nationhood were contested in relation to colonial/imperial histories and regional configurations. Early Cinema and the “National” takes stock of a formative moment in cinema history, tracing the beginnings of the process whereby nations learned to imagine themselves through moving images.
Blood from the Sky
Author: Piotr RawiczPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300078305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"Rawicz extended the frontier of artistic expression, by giving the unbearable a bearable frame."--from the introduction With the publication of this paperback edition of Piotr Rawicz's prizewinning Blood from the Sky, a classic of Holocaust literature emerges from many years out of print. A novel of richness and deep originality, it tells the story of Boris D., a Jewish resident of Lvov who poses as a non-Jew to evade the Nazis. Boris survives imprisonment in a death camp and moves to Paris following the war. Yet his account of his experiences is no celebration of survival; it is rather a commemoration of the horrifying deaths of countless others. Rawicz in this work has found a possible response to the events of the Holocaust: an unforgettable cry of lyric pain that transforms the horrors of history and memory into art.