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Literature and the Great War
Among the numerous volumes dedicated to the Great War, this book stands out for its ability to trace, in a thorough but concise manner, an overall picture of the literature born from the conflict. After its introductory pages concerning the forms, times and places of war writing, the book focuses on the story of the months of the eve of the war, on the journey to the front and the discovery of the true face of war, on the stories of the trenches, on the accounts of the imprisonment, and on the return home accompanied by disappointment and disorientation. The book, focused on Italy, but rich in references to European literature, is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, illusions and massacres. It is the story of an event that divided the collective history of Europe and individual lives. It is the account, passionate and exciting, of the literary writings born from trauma.
In the Poets’ Footsteps
Aimed not only at literature enthusiasts, but also at those who love to travel along less beaten paths, In the Poets’ Footsteps: Literature, Tourism, and Promotion tells the story of literary tourism between the beginning of the 1800s and today. Giovanni Capecchi surveys the methods most used today, namely printed and online literary guides, that offer a wide panorama of writers' homes and evaluates literary festivals as events capable of giving cultural and economic opportunities to the territories that host them.
Andrea Camilleri
C'est la première étude dédiée à Andrea Camilleri, l'écrivain sicilien dont le succès extraordinaire a représenté le cas littéraire le plus brillant de ces dernières années. Étiquetée par beaucoup comme roman populaire et d'amusement, l'oeuvre de Camilleri présente une veine d'engagement civil qui, empreinte de cette ironie si typique de la tradition sicilienne, révèle un écrivain "vrai", faisant pleinement partie de la meilleure littérature de ce temps.L'ouvrage contient un entretien de Camilleri, une bibliographie de ses oeuvres, y compris ses interventions journalistiques, et des articles de journaux le concernant.
Methods of Murder
Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man
A Century of Italian War Narratives
This volume focuses on acts of courage, defiance, and sacrifice undertaken during World War I and II by individuals that mainstream history has relegated to the sidelines. Drawn from different genres – literary, cinematic, diaristic and historical – the experiences that these ‘outsiders’ confronted lay bare the intimate, if lacerating, choices that they faced in their struggle for freedom. Ignored by official history, the testimonials that war prisoners, female partisan leaders, spies, deserters, and disillusioned soldiers offer, provide a fresh insight into the social, political, historical, and ethical contradictions that define warfare rhetoric in the twentieth century. The book’s ten contributors delve into the conflicts between oppressive authorities and the desire for freedom. With verve and energy, they revive these largely neglected voices and turn them into a provocative medium to discuss, and redefine, issues still relevant today: heroism, pacifism, national pride, gender issues, faith, personal and collective history.
Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature
In an era of globalization and European standardization, dialect, patois, and linguistic pastiche are marks of identity, of individual and regional nature. Paraphrasing the words of Luigi Pirandello, one tends to use the standard national language to express the concept, while one opts to use one’s regional dialect to express the feeling. The literary tradition has always accepted language mixing. Linguists and literary critics have studied this phenomenon from different perspectives. No in-depth treatment, however, has been offered so far as to the causes, conditions, consequences, and limits of language mixing from both the linguistic and literary points of view. The aim of this book is ...
About Face
How do we represent ouselves and the cultures we live in? Is it possible to trace any boundaries between reality and self-representation? Because the self represented is the product of a process of selection and choice, in many ways to represent the self is, often simultaneously, to create the self and negate the self. What, then, becomes of the self once it is represented? Because the process of self-representation cumulates in a tangible result and given that any representation of the self is necessarily a construct which aims to render visible or knowable in concrete form the unseen and unknown, self-representation is vulnerable to assessments of its naturalness or artificiality, its hone...
Sulle orme dei poeti
La letteratura accresce il valore dei luoghi, ne modifica la rilevanza, rende stratificata la loro storia. I racconti degli scrittori e il passaggio dei poeti (per soggiorni brevi o durati un’intera esistenza) contribuiscono a definire l’anima di un ambiente, alimentano le emozioni, possono avere il potere di modificare gli itinerari dei viaggiatori. Questo libro indaga la sfaccettata relazione tra letteratura e turismo, ripercorrendo i primi viaggi sui luoghi della poesia, i pellegrinaggi di poeti nei luoghi di altri poeti, la forza promozionale che alcuni testi hanno avuto per un paesaggio, un paese, un edificio. Storie del passato e del presente, luoghi letterari autentici ma anche in...
