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Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing
This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the affirmation of the “author function”, and, above all, its paradoxical opposite: the use of anonymity, a centuries-old practice present everywhere in Europe but often neglected by scholarship. The reasons why authors chose to publish their works anonymously were manifold, including prudence, fear of censorship, modesty, fear of personal criticism, or simple divertissement. In many cases, it was an ethical choice, especially for ecclesiastics. The Italian case provides a key perspective on the study of anonymity in the European context, contributing to the analysis of an overlooked topic in academic studies.
The Author in Criticism
The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (...
The View from Vesuvius
This book shows that the Southern Question is far from just an Italian issue, for its origins are deeply connected to the formation of European cultural identity between the mid-eighteenth and late-nineteenth centuries."--Jacket.
Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, reducing the novel to vague abstractions and totalizing wisdom about thinking outside the box. The shadow of post...
Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century
The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of children’s literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Frances Burney’s novels; Italian and British art theories; and patterns of cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century. Collectively they epitomise the concerns and approaches of scholars working on the long eighteenth century at this challenging and exciting ti...
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
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Italy in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Bridging New Cultures
A period of turmoil, uncertainty, and fears, the second half of the nineteenth century in Italy is also characterized by resilience, creativity, courageous discussions on the emancipation of women, and a variety of cultural products that are instrumental for the birth of a new and modern culture that will lead to the achievements of the twentieth century. Contributing to and expanding on recent scholarships on Italian literature of the nineteenth century, the book presents a series of literary, interdisciplinary and intercultural case studies. These case studies explore the social and cultural dimensions of the period, investigating the historical, literary, artistic, cultural, and social events of the time while probing their significance and relevance in bridging new Italian cultures.
Lo studente
"Lo studente" è un poemetto inedito di Nievo godibilissimo, di recente ritrovato in un archivio, costituito da 77 fogli legati da un filo sottile di spago. Parlano di sogni, del primo amore, della fede dell'umanità e gettano nuova luce sullo scrittore più amato.
Le confessioni di un italiano
Questo libro di Nievo – al vertice della narrativa risorgimentale – è un originale romanzo di educazione dei sentimenti. E' incentrato sulla figura di Carlo Altoviti, che attraverso le sue vicende personali ripercorre al contempo il processo di formazione dell’unità d’Italia, dal senile tramonto della Repubblica di Venezia fino agli avvenimenti del 1856. Alle vicende di Carlo fa da contraltare – modernissima e spregiudicata – la Pisana, un personaggio femminile di assoluta complessità, di cui il protagonista s’innamora fin dalla più tenera età. Un’approfondita interpretazione critica da parte di uno dei più importanti italianisti, un esauriente apparato di note e un compiuto indice dei personaggi propongono in nuova luce questo capolavoro della nostra letteratura risorgimentale.
