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Commedia Dell'Arteby John Rudlin; Olly Crick
Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95This book covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day. more...
The Italian Commedia and Please be Gentleby David Griffiths
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. Included is the play "Please Be Gentle" which explores tricks and devices of Commedia Dell'Arte acting. more...
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novelby Peter Bondanella; Andrea Ciccarelli
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00This volume provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Novelists examined include some of the most influential of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. more...
Queer Italiaby Gary P. Cestaro
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00This volume gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. The essays open an area in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. more...
Public History, Private Storiesby Graziella Parati
University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 96.00Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiography?a public act that is also the creation of a private life. Considering autobiographical writings by five women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, Parati draws important connections between self-writing and the debate over women?s roles, both traditional and transgressive. more...
Assembling the Lyric Selfby Olivia Holmes
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 42.00Assembling the Lyric Self investigates the transition in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries from the first surviving Provençal and Italian manuscripts (mostly multiauthor lyric anthologies prepared by scribes) to the single-author codex?that is, to the form we now think of as the book of poems. Working from extensive archival and philological research, Olivia Holmes explores the efforts of individual poets to establish poetic authenticity and authority in the context of expanding vernacular literacy. more...
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studiesby Gaetana Marrone
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 495.00Contains around 600 entries on various aspects of Italian literary culture. This title includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. It also includes substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, and more. more...
Petrarchby Victoria Kirkham; Armando Maggi
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet’s place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone—scholar, student, or general reader—can turn for information on each of Petrarch’s works, its place in the poet’s oeuvre, and a critical exposition of its defining features. A sophisticated but accessible handbook that illuminates Petrarch’s love of classical culture, his devout Christianity, his public... more...
The Complete Danteworldsby Guy P. Raffa
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 25.00Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until the publication in 2007 of Guy Raffa’s guide to the Inferno , students lacked a suitable resource to help them navigate Dante’s underworld. With this new guide to the entire Divine Comedy , Raffa provides readers—experts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dante neophytes, and everyone in between—with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of Paradise. Based on Raffa’s original research and his many years of teaching the poem to undergraduates, The Complete Danteworlds charts a simultaneously... more...
Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italyby Federico Schneider
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 99.95Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy represents the first full length study to confront seriously the well rehearsed analogy of the pastoral poet as healer. Building on Derrida's work on the Platonic pharmakon, which led to a better understanding of the theater / drug analogy, the stringent approach to the therapeutic function of the Renaissance pastoral offered in this work provides a valuable critical tool to unpack the complexity of a little-understood cliché. more...









