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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Differences, deceits, and desires Differences, deceits, and desires Mirna Cicioni "Italian crime fiction (known as gialli in Italy) has developed from a popular genre to a fully-fledged literary genre; and in the past thirty years it has gradually become the focus of growing inter… OL18661527W
The Italian novella The Italian novella Gloria Allaire "The birth of the Italian novella - a short prose narrative with roots in medieval folk wisdom and didactic parables - was among the most significant events that shaped the course of European literat… OL19163404W
A multitude of women A multitude of women Stefania Lucamante "A Multitude of Women looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external factors have influenced Italian women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties between au… OL2228379W
Understanding Primo Levi Understanding Primo Levi Nicholas Patruno "Primo Levi emerged from the Holocaust as one of the most powerful voices to bear witness to the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. Italian by birth and Jewish by ancestry, this young chemis… OL3483173W