Set the Stage!
Set the Stage!

Author: Nicoletta Marini-Maio

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-12-16

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0300152752

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Set the Stage! is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theater. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the rich and abundant Italian theater tradition into the curriculum. Features of the book includethe “Director's Handbook,” a comprehensive guide with detailed instructions for every step of the process, from choosing a text to the final performance,an exclusive interview with Nobel laureate Dario Fo,a foreword by prize-winning author Dacia Maraini.

Gendered Genres
Gendered Genres

Author: Laura Anne Salsini

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780838638019

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Matilde Serao's richly detailed narratives created a metamorphical city of women negotiating the social and cultural byways of turn-of-the-century Italy. With each text, Serao (1856-1927) added another stratum to her imaginary metropolis, grounding her works in realistic detail and acute social observation. Over the course of almost thirty novels, more than one hundred short stories, and innumerable newspaper articles, Serao articulated her own vision of female destiny in a society governed by traditional, often restrictive, paradigms of female behavior. This study examines how Serao refashioned traditional genres throughout her long literary career, a narrative strategy that allowed her to focus specifically on the depiction of female experiences.

Twentieth-century Italian poetry
Twentieth-century Italian poetry

Author: Smith, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Richard), 1945 Jan. 1-

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780802073686

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Twentieth-century Italian poetry is one of the most vital, innovative and influential bodies of literature on the European continent. This volume presents a selection of poems in the original Italian, with introductory material and notes in English.

Dantean Dialogues
Dantean Dialogues

Author: Maggie Kilgour

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 144264561X

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Dantean Dialogues is a collection of essays by some of the world's most outstanding Dante scholars., These essays enter into conversation with the main themes of the scholarship of Amilcare Iannucci (d. 2007), one of the leading researchers on Dante of his generation and arguably Canada's finest scholar of the Italian poet. The essays focus on the major themes of Iannucci's work, including the development of Dante's early poetry, Dante's relation to classical and biblical sources, and Dante's reception. The contributors cover crucial aspects of Dante's work, from the authority of the New Life to the novelty of his early poetry, to key episodes in the Comedy, to the poem's afterlife. Together, the essays show how Iannucci's reading of central cruxes in Dante's texts continues to inspire Dante studies - a testament to his continuing influence and profound intellectual legacy.

On the Bilingual Person
On the Bilingual Person

Author: Canadian Society for Italian Studies

Publisher: Biblioteca di Quaderni d’italianistica

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780969197966

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