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The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of this volume also lies in the fact that the author have not limited her investigation to a series of cities...
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.
Uncertain Justice
The crime genre entered Italy in the late nineteenth century, and if initially Italian authors followed models developed abroad—principally in the United States, England and France—a uniquely Italian brand began to emerge soon. Il giallo, as the crime genre has been known in Italy since the 1930s, proved to be the ideal instrument to confront pressing and often uncomfortable issues which were pertinent to the Italian context: it became a useful tool to restore, symbolically at least, the truth and justice that were, and still are, perceived by a large part of the Italian reading public to be systematically denied in reality. In today’s Italy, the crime genre, and particularly its noir ...
Deconstructing the Model in 20th and 21st-Century Italian Experimental Writings
Through a series of original analyses of experimental works that exist well outside of the established territory inhabited by the Italian literary canon, or which purposely position themselves at its margins, this volume proposes a new way to understand the goals of literary experimentation as a means to break the canon and give literature the same freedom that is easily granted to other arts. This serves to allow literature itself to intersect with those other art forms, while enhancing the powerful and positive outcomes of literary experimentation. Specifically, the volume explores a series of 20th- and 21st-century Italian works that are characterized by a non-normative approach to language or the act of writing itself. The contributors, while addressing diverse writers, and often even adopting different theoretical interpretations of experimentalism itself, all analyze the intersection between experimental literatures and other art forms, as well as cross-disciplinary and non-traditional approaches to the theme of experimentation.
Dictionary of American Family Names
Where did your surname come from? Do you know how many people in the United States share it? What does it tell you about your lineage?From the editor of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Surnames comes the most extensive compilation of surnames in America. The result of 10 years of research and 30 consulting editors, this massive undertaking documents 70,000 surnames of Americans across the country. A reference source like no other, it surveys each surname giving its meaning, nationality, alternate spellings, common forenames associated with it, and the frequency of each surname and forename.The Dictionary of American Family Names is a fascinating journey throughout the multicultural United States, offering a detailed look at the meaning and frequency of surnames throughout the country. For students studying family genealogy, others interested in finding out more about their own lineage, or lexicographers, the Dictionary is an ideal place to begin research.
Il piacere di essere un altro. Conversazioni
Roberto Andò con Salvatore Ferlita Il piacere di essere un altro Fotografie di Lia Pasqualino “Nello stesso periodo, setacciando i libri che erano in casa, mi sono imbattuto nelle opere di Elio Vittorini e di Leonardo Sciascia, tra cui Conversazione in Sicilia, Le parrocchie di Regalpetra e i racconti contenuti nella raccolta Gli zii di Sicilia, libri che mi hanno trasmesso l’urgenza della scrittura. Era la prima volta che mi capitava di leggere qualcosa che aveva a che fare col mistero del luogo in cui vivevo. Una sorta di resa dei conti con la Sicilia. La scrittura di Sciascia mi ha dato la certezza che prima o poi avrei scritto anch’io, così come, più tardi, la visione di certi f...
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Hanno collaborato: Enzo Siciliano, Giuliano Amato, Paolo Baratta, Guido Bertagna S.J., Luciano Cafagna Carlo Freccero, Giovanni Gozzini, Miriam Mafai, Mons. Vincenzo Paglia, Claudio Piersanti, Alfredo Reichlin, Gian Enrico Rusconi, Francesca Sanvitale, Flavio Santi, Chiara Saraceno, Giorgio van Straten, Antonio Moresco, Ennio Brilli, Roberto Alajmo, Claudio Damiani, John Donne, Fiornando Gabbrielli, Florinda Fusco, Luca Canali, Frank Bidart, Paolo Febbraro, Marco Giovenale, Roberto Maggio, Marco Mantello, Michele Rossi, Albert Samson, Laura Sergio, Raffaele La Capria, Roberto Canò, Paola Frandini, Tommaso Lisa, Sebastiano Mondadori, Davide Barilli, Alessandro Piperno.
