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Der historische Roman seit der Postmoderne
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 60.62Hauptbeschreibung 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...
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...
Der Neid der Götter/L'Invidia degli Dei
Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 18.73Hauptbeschreibung 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...
Body of State
Fairleigh Dickinson 2011; US$ 64.99Body of State offers a comprehensive critical perspective on the Moro Affair and on Marco Baliani?s work. With contributions from scholars, theater practitioners, teachers, and students, it constitutes a unique resource for terrorism studies, Italian Studies, Theater Studies, History, Political Science, and other discipline that train on the intersection... 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...
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...
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...
Umberto Eco
Narr Francke Attempto 2010; US$ 26.45Hauptbeschreibung 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...
Primo Levi's Universe
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 24.99Primo Levi is best known as a memoirist of Auschwitz, but he was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet: in short, a Renaissance man. Primo Levi?s Universe offers a multi-faceted portrait of the heroic man who turned the concentration camp experience into beautiful yet terrifying literature. Over time, Levi developed an original world-view... more...









