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Umberto Eco
Narr Francke Attempto 2010; US$ 25.88Hauptbeschreibung Umberto Eco ist seit seinem ersten Roman Der Name der Rose, dem er inzwischen vier weitere hinzugefügt hat, einer der berühmtesten lebenden Schriftsteller der Welt. Darüber hinaus ist er international anerkannter und ausgewiesener Philosoph, Mediävist, Historiker, Kunsthistoriker, Linguist und Semiotiker. All dies integriert er... more...
Der Neid der Götter/L'Invidia degli Dei
Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 18.33Hauptbeschreibung Die vorliegende zweisprachige Auswahl von Gedichten des 1936 in Rom geborenen Lucio Mariani stellt dessen Werks erstmals der deutschen Öffentlichkeit vor. In der Nachfolge der großen europäischen Lyriker schreibt Mariani gegen die Erinnerungslosigkeit unserer Zeit an. Seine Phantasie und Vorstellungskraft entwickeln Erinnerungsvermögen.... more...
Der historische Roman seit der Postmoderne
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 59.31Hauptbeschreibung Der historische Roman ist seit den 1980er Jahren zentral für die literarische Ausgestaltung von postmodernem Gedankengut. Die Impulse, die Umberto Eco für die Gattung liefert, sind dabei maßgeblich für die deutsche Literatur. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht diesen Zusammenhang erstmalig in detaillierten Textanalysen. Sie berücksichtigt... more...
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 27.50One of the most important Italian poets of the last century, Vittorio Sereni (1913–83) wrote with a historical awareness unlike that of any of his contemporaries. A poet of both personal and political responsibility, his work sensitively explores life under fascism, military defeat and imprisonment, and the resurgence of extreme... more...
Twice Born
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 26.95This international bestseller is a sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war-torn Sarajevo. Filled with memories of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, Gemma reluctantly boards a flight from her native Rome to that war-scarred city with her sixteen-year-old son, Pietro. She hopes to teach her son about the city of his birth and... more...
Trilogy of Resistance
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 75.00With Trilogy of Resistance, the political philosopher Antonio Negri extends his intervention in contemporary politics and culture into a new medium: drama. The three plays collected for the first time in this volume dramatize the central concepts of the innovative and influential thought he has articulated in his best-selling books Empire and Multitude,... more...
The Flower of Youth
ECW Press 2011; US$ 12.95Written as a kind of historical narrative in verse, the poems in this collection depict the coming of age and sexual awareness of the great Italian writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern Italy. Unlike his younger brother, Guido, who took up arms to fight in the... more...
How to Read a Novelist
The Text Publishing Company 2012; US$ 29.99How to Read a Novelist is the ultimate booklovers book. John Freeman, author and editor of Granta magazine, has interviewed nearly every name in fiction and the literary world. In this collection Freeman has compiled the most insightful and fascinating of his interviews, essays and articles. Paul Theroux on the state of sex in America,... more...
Naming the Rose
University Press of Mississippi 2010; US$ 75.00The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions from which it draws: theories of detective fiction, comedy, postmodernism, the apocalypse, semiotics, and literary... more...
The Legacy of Primo Levi
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 95.00This collection represents some of the latest research on Primo Levi, the famous Auschwitz survivor Italian author, in the field of Italian Studies, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, literary theory, philosophy, and ethics. The author has collected an impressive group of scholars, including Ian Thomson, who has published a well-received biography... more...









