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Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture
This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry, drama, and film, these essays examine the vision of female agency and self-actualization arising from women artists’ critique of female identity. This dual approach reveals unique interpretations of womanhood in Italy spanning more than fifty years, while also providing a deep investigation of the manipulation of canvases historically centered on the male subject. With its unique coupling of generic and thematic concerns, the volume contributes to the ever expanding female artistic legacy, and to our understanding of postwar Italian women’s evolving relationship to the narration of history, gender roles, and these artists’ use and revision of generic convention to communicate their vision.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
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Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions between on the one hand a glorious, world-famous yet distant past and, on the other, a traumatic contemporary history of wars, expulsions, civil strife and political and economic crises. Such clashes of imaginary identifications and collective traumas call for interpretations not only from historians but also from artists and storytellers. Therefore, the chapters in this volume explore the ways in which sensitive and creative perspectives of art approach and appropriate history in Greece. Through a...
The Fire Within
Desire for love, desire for knowledge, desire to possess, desire to desire and to be desired: our life is shaped by what we want and by our efforts to achieve it. Hailed by philosophers and psychoanalysts as the core of human identity, desire informs not only our actions, but also our dreams and hopes and their sublimation into art and literature. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern and contemporary Italian literature, by analysing some of the most interesting literary figures of the last two centuries. The authors of this collection approach desire from various perspectives – psychoanalytical, sociological, political and semiotic – in order to show that ...
The Novel of Neronian Rome and Its Multimedial Transformations
This volume explores the historical novel Quo vadis written by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, examining how Sienkiewicz recreated Neronian Rome so vividly and the reasons why his novel was so avidly consumed and reproduced in new editions, translations, visual illustrations, and adaptations to the stage and screen.
Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016
Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
Metamorphosing Dante
After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dante explores what so many authors, artists and thinkers from varied backgrounds have found in Dante’s oeuvre, and the ways in which they have engaged with it through rewritings, dialogues, and transpositions. By establishing trans-disciplinary routes, the volume shows that, along with a corpus of multiple linguistic and narrative structures, characters, and stories, Dante has provided a field of tensions in which to mirror and investigate one’s own time. Authors explored include Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, André Gide, Derek Jarman, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, James Joyce, Wolfgang Koeppen, Jacques Lacan, Thomas Mann, James Merrill, Eugenio Montale, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Cesare Pavese, Giorgio Pressburger, Robert Rauschenberg, Vittorio Sereni, Virginia Woolf.
Il pensiero della poesia
Cosa hanno in comune gli studi raccolti in questo volume, su autori così disparati come Conte, Palazzeschi, Zanzotto, Caproni, Rosselli, Biagini, alcuni poeti crepuscolari, Leopardi, Annovi, Giuliani, e perfino certe traduzioni novecentesche di R.M. Rilke? La convinzione che la parola poetica – etimologicamente ‘creatrice’ – dia corpo, generi prospettive cognitive che alterano la nostra percezione del mondo. La lettura della poesia non ha un effetto confinato alla pagina e al momento, ma incide sul nostro rapporto con la realtà, lo cambia e lo arricchisce in maniera spesso insospettabile e sorprendente. In questa raccolta, si cerca dunque di far emergere una sorta di epistemologia della poesia, di chiarire insomma come essa contribuisca ad illuminare la nostra esperienza del mondo e di noi stessi. Il lettore è allora invitato a guardare al di fuori dei confini tradizionalmente stabiliti dalle diverse discipline, in una direzione che è quella della contaminazione reciproca e dell’apertura a suggestioni innovative ed inedite.
Il video a 360° nella didattica universitaria
Il volume affronta il tema dell’impiego educativo del video a 360° all’università, per avvicinare i docenti all’adozione di pratiche didattiche innovative. L’uso di questa tecnologia sta conoscendo una fase di rapida evoluzione, attraendo l’interesse di docenti di aree disciplinari diverse per le potenzialità del video a 360° di anticipare esperienze, specie in contesti a rischio. Il volume offre un quadro teorico e metodologico delle dimensioni coinvolte, accompagnato da un approfondimento sugli aspetti tecnici. Ampio spazio è dedicato ai risultati di SEPA360, un progetto di faculty development sul video a 360°, e alle buone pratiche che ha generato. Il volume può essere un valido strumento per docenti universitari, insegnanti, formatori, interessati all’uso delle tecnologie immersive nella formazione.
