SICILIA ARTEFICI DEL NOSTRO DESTINO

SICILIA ARTEFICI DEL NOSTRO DESTINO

Author: Remo Pulcini

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1470939762

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SICILIA ARTEFICI DEL NOSTRO DESTINO "Piano di rinascita" PROGRAMMA POLITICO STRATEGICO DI SVILUPPO DI REMO PULCINI


Writing Architectural History

Writing Architectural History

Author: Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0822988429

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Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently global history, connecting to revisionist trends in other fields. With examples across space and time—from medieval European coin trials and eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary buildings to Weimar German construction firms and present-day African refugee camps—Writing Architectural History considers the impact of these shifting institutional landscapes and disciplinary positionings for architectural history. Contributors reveal how new methodological approaches have developed interdisciplinary research beyond the traditional boundaries of art history departments and architecture schools, and explore the challenges and opportunities presented by conventional and unorthodox forms of evidence and narrative, the tools used to write history.


The Conservatory of Santa Teresa

The Conservatory of Santa Teresa

Author: Bilenchi, Romano

Publisher: Firenze University Press

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 8866558230

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This volume is the first translation of Romano Bilenchi’s 1940 masterpiece to appear in English. This is surprising since The Conservatory of Santa Teresa is much more than an invaluable historical document of life in provincial Tuscany around the time of the First World War. It is truly one of the most important works of fiction published in Italy under Fascism. In telling of the pre-adolescent Sergio’s encounter with the larger world of sex, politics, and the violence and cruelty of adult life, Bilenchi succeeds in representing a universal paradigm, that of the clash of innocence with experience. But what makes Sergio’s trajectory unique is that he goes through it in the company of three extraordinary women who are at once femmes fatales and benevolent guides: his mother, his aunt, and his tutor, all almost unbearably beautiful, as least in Sergio’s eyes. These women, plus the dazzling landscape of the Sienese countryside as captured by Bilenchi, make Sergio’s journey an enviable even if sometimes painful and bewildering experience.


The Imagined Immigrant

The Imagined Immigrant

Author: Ilaria Serra

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0838641989

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Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.


Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

Author: Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

Publisher: Firenze University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 8864534059

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This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).


The City in Late Antiquity

The City in Late Antiquity

Author: Dr John Rich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 113476135X

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The city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts the change undergone by cities as the Empire was weakened by the third-century crisis, and later disintegrated under external pressures. The old picture of the classical city as everywhere in decline by the fourth century is shown to be far too simple, and John Rich seeks to explain why urban life disappeared in some regions, while elsewhere cities survived through to the Middle Ages and beyond.