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Irresistible signs
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Paola Gambarota |
"Language is now understood as a key component of cultural identity, but discourses on linguistic nationalism are only a few centuries old. In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the con… |
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Vernacular translation in Dante's Italy
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Alison Cornish |
"Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of … |
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Italian pulp fiction
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Stefania Lucamante |
"This volume attempts to provide an analytical, structured context for and a critical approach to the Giovani Cannibali movement that takes into account how the changing cultural and social landscape… |
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Florentine drawing at the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent
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Elizabeth Cropper |
xv, 276 p., [86] p. of plates : 25 cm |
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Italoamericana
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Anthony Julian Tamburri,Francesco Durante,Robert Viscusi,James J. Periconi |
Allows readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. |
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A literary tour of Italy
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Tim Parks |
LITERARY ESSAYS. An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the … |
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Prison terms
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Ellen Victoria Nerenberg |
"In this work, Ellen Nerenberg offers an analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, the last fifteen years of Fascism and the fifteen that followed. Nerenberg … |
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Painting with words, writing with pictures
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Franco Ricci |
"Ricci's book ranges widely over Calvino's oeuvre to illustrate the accuracy of the idea articulated by Calvino himself that a visual image lies at the origin of all his narrative. The book's main th… |
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