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Orlando Furioso
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.99Orlando Furioso ("The Frenzy of Orlando", more literally "Mad Orlando"; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized) is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532. Orlando... more...
Italian Literature
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 9.99In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today. Examining themes such as regional identities, political disunity, and the role of the national language,... more...
Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00Addresses the aspects of Petrarch research and interpretation: the interplay between Petrarch's texts and their material preparation and reception. This book aims to show how a Petrarchan hermeneutics must be based on an understanding of Petrarchan philology. more...
The Art of Commedia
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 252.00Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the... more...
Lagunenlyrik - Venedig im Spiegel der Dichtung
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 36.37Kaum eine andere Stadt Italiens, wenn nicht sogar der Welt, hat Künstler und Dichter so nachhaltig inspiriert wie Venedig. Kaum ein anderer Ort entfaltete eine ähnliche Wirkung in der Literatur; diente ihr so kontinuierlich als Schauplatz, war den Schriftstellern immer wieder eine Reise wert, und brachte aus einer nahezu unerschöpflichen Menge an Motiven... more...
L' écrivain scénique
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1978; US$ 5.25Dans lensemble de la production contemporaine, trois ouvres font ici lobjet détudes systématiques : celles de Samuel Beckett, de Romain Weingarten et de Jean Genet. Une interview inédite dEugène Ionesco complète louvrage. more...
Der Kerzenzieher
Felix Meiner Verlag 2006; US$ 41.88Hauptbeschreibung Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen der Renaissance, veröffentlichte 1582 in Paris sein erstes Werk in italienischer Sprache, eine turbulente Komödie, angesiedelt im zeitgenössischen Neapel. Die drei Hauptfiguren in diesem linguistisch und soziologisch erstaunlich detailgetreuen Notturno sind ein geldgieriger... more...
Identity and Ideology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 158.00The bourgeois drama of "serious genre" was one of the major innovative literary forms of the French Enlightenment, but it has been largely excluded from the canon today. In a study drawing on contemporary and 18th-century literary theory and philosophy, social history and history of the theatre, Hayes presents a reading of the dramas of Diderot... more...
Mirages de la farce
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 158.00Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant... more...
Le Romantisme aux enchères
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 158.00Reassessing the theoretical usefulness of the “high/low culture” perspective often found in writings on Romantic theater, this book shows how this dichotomy has obscured the centrality of melodrama as a dominant mode of Romantic expression in post-revolutionary France. The book focuses on Victor Ducange's production (1813-33) in order to... more...









