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Published: 2016-11-18
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9782406059172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLa littérature de conduite, écrite pour les femmes et à leur sujet, offre un aperçu fascinant sur l'évolution du rôle des femmes à travers les siècles. Cet ouvrage examine quelques-unes des principales caractéristiques de ces textes en Italie, de la fin du XVe siècle jusqu'à la période post-unitaire.
Author: Brian Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108477690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
Author: Manuela Mosca
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 3031642813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Professor of French Philology and Linguistics Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 0198754957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of linguistic and cultural traditions. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, from the production of dictionaries and grammars to language teaching methods and language policy.
Author: Anna Bellavitis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 3319965417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women’s roles in economic urban activities. Covering a wide area of early modern Europe, from Portugal to Poland and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Bellavitis presents an overview of the economic rights of women – property, inheritance, management of their wealth, access to the guilds, access to education – and assesses the evolution of female work in different urban contexts.
Author: Ambra Moroncini
Publisher: Quod Manet
Published: 2024-03-13
Total Pages: 365
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “intangible power” of literature, which, in Umberto Eco’s words, “allows us to travel through a textual labyrinth (be it an entire encyclopaedia or the complete works of William Shakespeare) without necessarily ‘unravelling’ all the information it contains”, may be clearly identifiable in our contemporary age of intertextuality and, most importantly, of interdisciplinarity. It suffices to think of the countless film adaptations of Shakespeare’s works, or of the popular appeal of Dan Brown’s global bestsellers, the so-called Robert Langdon book series, which has made original (and contentious) use of literary and artistic masterpieces such as Dante’s Divine Comedy and Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. What is more, the investigation of literature’s verbality through the lenses of cinematic and media perspectives has greatly benefitted from scholarly insights into dialogism, heteroglossia, polyphony, and historiophoty, opening new aural and visual windows of interpretation and knowledge. With these considerations in mind, this book explores the enduring presence of some of the most revolutionary early modern voices and works in our contemporary time. It embraces a rich diversity of literary genres (from poetry to storytelling, novels, fairy tales, and historical colonial chronicles, while also considering musical theatre compositions), and broadens the scope of research to the world of media, with cutting edge insights into contemporary films, TV series, and videogames. It presents innovative scholarly perspectives on how early modern works and themes are explored, remediated and refashioned today to address cultural, political, and social issues germane to our global moment.
Author: Brian Zuccala
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 8855185977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).
Author: Janice Carruthers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-07-09
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0192647075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together two particularly dynamic areas of contemporary research on the French language. The chapters showcase the most innovative current scholarship in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and in the burgeoning field of historical sociolinguistics which lies at their intersection. The research across the volume is strongly data-centred, drawing on a wide range of both well-established and more novel theoretical and methodological approaches in order to open up new perspectives on the study of the French language in the twenty-first century. Although it is written in English, the work presented here is underpinned by a range of different approaches from across the Francophone and Anglophone worlds. Particular emphasis is placed on combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, on diversifying tools, methods, and objects of inquiry, and on adopting comparative and multilingual perspectives where these shed new light on important questions relating to French. In these ways, Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French highlights some of the most exciting new directions for linguistic research on the French language.
Author: Meredith K. Ray
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2023-04-14
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1644533065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future directions in these fields.
Author: Annick Paternoster
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9027263051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Régime and the contemporary period, with the rise of the middle classes as economic, political, social and cultural actors. The central innovation of this volume consists in its use of a wide range of politeness metasources — grammar books, schoolbooks, conduct books, etiquette books, and letter-writing manuals — to access social norms. This interdisciplinary approach, which draws on historical linguistics, argumentation theory, appraisal theory and literary stylistics, is applied to a wide range of languages: English, including Scottish and business English, Italian, Spanish, West and South Slavic languages. As a highly coherent collection of innovative research papers, the volume will be welcomed by researchers of (im)politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, both from a historical and contemporary perspective.
