The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic
Author: Andrea Canepari
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780916101107
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Gadda Goes to War
Author: Federica G Pedriali
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-09-30
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0748668748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces and analyses stage performances of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italy's own Joyce. Includes the Italian texts (with English translation) and the dvd of the Italian performance (with English subtitles).
Playthings in Early Modernity
Author: Allison Levy
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: 2017-02-22
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1580442617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.
From Kant to Croce
Author: Brian P. Copenhaver
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 873
ISBN-13: 1442642661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom around 1800, shortly before Pasquale Galluppi's first book, until 1950, just before Benedetto Croce died, the most formative influences on Italian philosophers were Kant and the post-Kantians, especially Hegel. In many ways, the Italian philosophers of this period lived in turbulent but creative times, from the Restoration to the Risorgimento and the rise and fall of Fascism. From Kant to Croce is a comprehensive, highly readable history of the main currents and major figures of modern Italian philosophy, described in a substantial introduction that details the development of the discipline during this period. Brian P. Copenhaver and Rebecca Copenhaver provide the only up-to-date introduction in English to Italy's leading modern philosophers by translating and analysing rare and original texts and by chronicling the lives and times of the philosophers who wrote them. Thoroughly documented and highly readable, From Kant to Croce examines modern Italian philosophy from the perspective of contemporary analytic philosophy.
The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950
Author: Tine Van Osselaer
Publisher: Numen Book
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9789004439191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the 'saints' and religious 'celebrities' of their time. With their 'miraculous' bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious 'celebrities'"--
Two Michelangelos Hb
Author: TALVACCHIA
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781848224490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough historical coincidence that almost takes on a mythical character, 'Michelangelo' was the given name not only of the Florentine sculptor, but also of the painter who grew up in Caravaggio, a provincial town in Lombardy, about 25 miles east of Milan. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, commonly called by reference to his hometown, produced ......
The Last Man
Author: Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin de Grainville
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780819566089
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Shop Talk
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2001-09-25
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0547344899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe legendary author’s essays and interviews explore how fellow writers from Milan Kundera to Edna O’Brien are influenced by time, place, and politics. Writers are often deeply influenced by the time and place in which they live and write. In Shop Talk, Philip Roth, winner of a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and numerous other literary honors, explores the intimate relationship a writer’s experience has with his or her work. In a series of essays, Roth recounts his intellectual encounters with writers, discussing with them the diverse regions from which they hail and pondering the influence of locale, politics, and history on their work. Featuring luminaries such as Milan Kundera discussing Czechoslovakia; Primo Levi talking about Auschwitz; Edna O’Brien reflecting on Ireland; Isaac Bashevis Singer tackling Warsaw; Aharon Appelfeld on Bukovina; and Ivan Klíma on Prague, Roth’s conversations touch on the conditions that inspire great art, with artists as attuned to the subtleties of their societies as they are the nuances of words. Also including a portrait of Bernard Malamud, a written exchange with Mary McCarthy about Roth’s The Counterlife, and the essay “Rereading Saul Bellow,” Shop Talk is a “fascinating [glimpse] of some of the deans of postwar literature” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Italy, Islam and the Islamic World
Author: Charles Burdett
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783034319768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow have events such as military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq or the protests in Tahrir Square been represented by writers, journalists and intellectuals in Italy? This study examines the arguments used in defining Italy's relationship with Islam and with the Islamic world, in the period from 9/11 to the Arab Spring.
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia
Author: Andrea Canepari
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2021-12-03
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1439916470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia examines the impact and influence of Italian arts, culture, people, and ideas on the city of Philadelphia from the founding to the present"--
