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Scenic Byways
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy
This handbook is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of fantasy outside the Anglo-American hegemony. While most academic studies of fantasy follow the well-trodden path of focusing on Tolkien, Rowling, and others, our collection spotlights rich and unique fantasy literatures in India, Australia, Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, China, and many other areas of Europe, Asia, and the global South. The first part focuses on the theoretical aspects of fantasy, broadening and modifying existing definitions to accommodate the global reach of the genre. The second part contains essays illuminating specific cultures, countries, and religious or ethnic traditions. From Aboriginal myths to (self)-representation of Tibet, from the appropriation of the Polish Witcher by the American pop culture to modern Greek fantasy that does not rely on stories of Olympian deities, and from Israeli vampires to Talmudic sages, this collection is an indispensable reading for anyone interested in fantasy fiction and global literature.
Le scrittrici della notte
Cimiteri infestati, bare inchiodate troppo in fretta, corpi palpitanti di terrore, simulacri in cui albergano divinità intrappolate e spettri assassini di donne innamorate. Loredana Lipperini indice una seduta spiritica e chiama a raccolta le scrittrici della notte: donne che hanno sfidato il canone letterario, che si sono cimentate con il fantastico e con il perturbante e ancora terrorizzano chi mette gli occhi sulle loro pagine. La corona di racconti composta da Loredana Lipperini mostra tutte le sfumature nella palette del buio letterario. Troviamo il gotico spettrale di Carolina Invernizio e Marchesa Colombi, la tensione al sublime e all'eroico di Paola Masino, il fantastico frammisto a...
Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film
As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals, inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and a new epistemological and ethical approach to reality is needed. Through twelve thought-provoking, scholarly essays, this volume analyzes works by a range of modern and contemporary Italian authors, from Giacomo Leopardi to Elena Ferrante, who have captured the shift from anthropocentrism and postmodernism to posthumanism. Indeed, this is the first academic volume investigating narrative configurations of posthuman identity in Italian literature and film.
Membrane Transporters and Channels as Targets for Drugs
Transporters and channels are membrane proteins that mediate the traffic of metabolites, water and ions across biological membranes. Membrane transport proteins are crucial to maintain homeostasis and assure cell survival upon intracellular or environmental stress. A failure of any of these transport systems may have dramatic consequences for cell function. There is increasing evidence that membrane transport proteins play important functions in healthy conditions and that their absence or dysfunction may cause diseases. In recent years much attention has been paid to diseases resulting from defective transporters (“carrier diseases”) and ion channels (“channelopathies”). Very intere...
Italica
"La letteratura è un documento. Questo libro ricapitola gli ultimi cent'anni attraverso le voci e gli sguardi degli scrittori e delle scrittrici che erano vivi mentre quei fatti accadevano." Si apre così questa vertiginosa raccolta in cui Giacomo Papi intreccia trenta magnifici racconti italiani con una sua personale lettura del Novecento, fatta anche di statistiche, relazioni parlamentari, articoli di giornale. Leggeremo capolavori di Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, Malaparte, Fenoglio o Ortese, e intanto scopriremo quanto costava un chilo di pane nel 1958 o quanto erano alti i soldati di leva nel 1940, quante case si costruirono negli anni Cinquanta e quante donne si laurearo...
New Italian epic
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