Piero Gobetti's Turin

Niamh Cullen

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 12
• In his brief public career, Piero Gobetti was one of the most outspoken and original voices of early Italian antifascism. Before his sudden death in 1... Lees meer

Psychiatry, Subjectivity, Community

Alvise Sforza-Tarabochia

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 15
• Law 180, which abolished mental asylums in Italy, was passed in 1978. It came to be known as the 'Basaglia Law', after the physician whose work revolu... Lees meer

Italian Orientalism

Fabrizio De Donno

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 33
• The on-going debate on the legacies of European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. This book is a literary and intellectual hi... Lees meer

Italy, Islam and the Islamic World

Charles Burdett

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 24
• The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as Italy's second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has generated an intense a... Lees meer

Queer Ventennio

John Champagne

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 34
• Exploring the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history of homosexuality and European modernism, this ground-breaking study analy... Lees meer

Fictions of Appetite

Enrico Cesaretti

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 17
• Investigates the recurrence and aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in works by F.T. Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Massi... Lees meer

Ten Steps

• Paperback | Italiaans, Frans, Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 23
• This book is a journey into the thought and poetry of Giacomo Leopardi. It sheds new light on his compound of poetic imagination and philosophical com... Lees meer

Conflicts of Memory

Emiliano Perra

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 8
• Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and highly selective memories of... Lees meer

Italian Industrial Literature and Film

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 40
• This book explores the representation of industrial labor in Italian literature and film from the 1950s through the 1970s. Italian literature and film... Lees meer

The Distance to China

Linetto Basilone

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 42
• China was the destination of choice for hundreds of prominent Italian authors during the twentieth century, and their travel narratives helped to shap... Lees meer

Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 16
• In the nineteenth century a woman's place was considered to be in the home. During the Risorgimento and the years following the Unification of Italy i... Lees meer

Destination Italy

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 21
• Due to its strategic Mediterranean position, Italy is a crossroad of complex transnational movements, a unique context for the study of contemporary m... Lees meer

Queer(ing) Gender in Italian Women's Writing

Maria Morelli

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 35
• QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN'S WRITINGS is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis... Lees meer

Staging the Fascist War

Luigi Petrella

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 26
• Drawing on largely unexplored sources such as government papers, personal memoirs, censored letters and confidential reports, Staging the Fascist War ... Lees meer

Italian Political Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 38
• Despite recent societal anti-political sentiments, Italian cinema has continued to address politics, including reflections on public life, memory, and... Lees meer

National Belongings

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 7
• Scholars of Italian colonialism have been reluctant to acknowledge the influence that local populations and their culture had on Italians and on the w... Lees meer

Reframing Migration

Federica Mazzara

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 32
• This book reframes the debate around migration in the Mediterranean, and specifically around Lampedusa, by exploring how art forms - including works b... Lees meer

Freud and Italian Culture

• Paperback | Engels, Italiaans | Italian Modernities | nr. 3
• This book explores the different ways in which psychoanalysis has been connected to various fields of Italian culture, such as literary criticism, phi... Lees meer

Italian Chimeras

Meriel Tulante

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 37
• Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015) engaged in an ambitious project to narrate Italy, the nation, its people and its pathologies. For Vassalli, chimeras a... Lees meer

Opera aperta

Emanuela Patti

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 39
• This book reconstructs the history of Italian electronic literature, looking at creative practices across literature, electronic and digital media fro... Lees meer

Migrant Imaginaries

Jennifer Burns

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 18
• Examining five central figures and concepts - identity, memory, home, place and space, and literature - across a range of novels and stories by writer... Lees meer

Era mio padre

• Paperback | Engels, Italiaans | Italian Modernities | nr. 30
• This volume explores the work of authors such as Mario Calabresi, Benedetta Tobagi, Luca Tarantelli and Massimo Coco, whose fathers were victims of It... Lees meer

Italy's Other Women

Danielle Hipkins

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 25
• In the period 1940-1965 the female prostitute featured in at least 10 per cent of Italian-made films. This book explains why she was so prevalent in I... Lees meer

Entering the Frame

Robert Lumley

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Modernities | nr. 10
• Entering the Frame is the first complete study of the cinema of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, pioneers of archival and found-footage film... Lees meer