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Modern Spiritualism In Italian Literature And Culture (1765-1969)

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 Examining its intersections with science, philosophy, and the occult from the eighteenth century to the 1960s, it offers a fresh perspective on Italyâ€™s role in shaping modern understandings of modernity, belief, and the supernatural.
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George Eliot And Europe

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 This book is based on a conference held in Warwick in July 1995. It is a collection of essays which explore various aspects of George Eliot's relation to the literature and culture of Continental Europe.
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Epistolary Selves - Letters And Letter-Writers, 1600â€“1945

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 This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material.
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Staging Dario Fo And Franca Rame - Anglo-American Approaches To Political Theatre

by Stefania Taviano

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 This is the first extended treatment of the English translations, staging, and reception of the political plays of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Stefania Taviano offers a critique of the cultural stereotyping and political conservatism that have pursued these playwrights in translation and argues for the possibility of remaining true to Fo and Rame's p
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Illuminating Eco - On The Boundaries Of Interpretation

by Charlotte Ross

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 Illuminating Eco provides an opportunity to view the interaction between Umberto Eco's fiction and his theoretical texts, and suggests future avenues of research. Covering the range of British scholarship on Eco's literary and theoretical work, essays by scholars such as Michael Caesar and David Robey consider Eco's writing through the reading stra
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Ignazio Silone In Exile - Writing And Antifascism In Switzerland 1929?1944

by Deborah Holmes

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 Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland. Focusing on this period, this book throws new light on Silone's complex biography and shows how his literary production influenced and was influenced by fellow antifascist German Ã©migrÃ©s and the Swiss socialist intelligent
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George Eliot And Europe

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 This book is based on a conference held in Warwick in July 1995. It is a collection of essays which explore various aspects of George Eliot's relation to the literature and culture of Continental Europe.
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George Eliot And Europe

42,39€ + 10% CARD

 This book is based on a conference held in Warwick in July 1995. It is a collection of essays which explore various aspects of George Eliot's relation to the literature and culture of Continental Europe.
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Epistolary Selves - Letters And Letter-Writers, 1600-1945

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 This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material.
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Epistolary Selves - Letters And Letter-Writers, 1600-1945

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 This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material.
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German Culture And The Uncomfortable Past - Representations Of National Socialism In Contemporary Germanic Literature

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 Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of VergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through GÃ¼nter Grass'' and Martin Walser''s conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.
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German Culture And The Uncomfortable Past - Representations Of National Socialism In Contemporary Germanic Literature

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of VergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through GÃ¼nter Grass'' and Martin Walser''s conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.
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Ignazio Silone In Exile - Writing And Antifascism In Switzerland 1929-1944

by Deborah Holmes

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 Examines the developing role Ignazio Silone played in the intellectual life of Zurich. With archival research and critical approach to the pioneering methods and results of German 'Exilforschung,' this book opens the way for further studies on this little known aspect of Italian emigration culture.
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Ignazio Silone In Exile - Writing And Antifascism In Switzerland 1929-1944

by Deborah Holmes

42,39€ + 10% CARD

 Examines the developing role Ignazio Silone played in the intellectual life of Zurich. With archival research and critical approach to the pioneering methods and results of German 'Exilforschung,' this book opens the way for further studies on this little known aspect of Italian emigration culture.
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Illuminating Eco - On The Boundaries Of Interpretation

by Charlotte Ross

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 The essays that comprise this volume evolved from a one-day conference concerned with projecting a British perspective on Umberto Eco, his body of work and the relationship of his fiction to his theoretical texts.
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Illuminating Eco - On The Boundaries Of Interpretation

by Charlotte Ross

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 The essays that comprise this volume evolved from a one-day conference concerned with projecting a British perspective on Umberto Eco, his body of work and the relationship of his fiction to his theoretical texts.
ENGLISH

Staging Dario Fo And Franca Rame - Anglo-American Approaches To Political Theatre

by Stefania Taviano

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on the UK and US, the author offers a critique of the cultural stereotyping and political conservatism that have pursued the playwrights in translation. She shows how the choices made by the translators and stagers of Fo and Rame's political theatre reveal attitudes toward foreign cultures and theatre generally and Italy in particular.
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Staging Dario Fo And Franca Rame - Anglo-American Approaches To Political Theatre

by Stefania Taviano

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on the UK and US, the author offers a critique of the cultural stereotyping and political conservatism that have pursued the playwrights in translation. She shows how the choices made by the translators and stagers of Fo and Rame's political theatre reveal attitudes toward foreign cultures and theatre generally and Italy in particular.
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German Culture And The Uncomfortable Past - Representations Of National Socialism In Contemporary Germanic Literature

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 This volume spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores the shifts and changes in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung - coming to terms with the past. The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism.
ENGLISH

Staging Dario Fo And Franca Rame - Anglo-American Approaches To Political Theatre

by Stefania Taviano

196,02€ + 10% CARD

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 Focusing on the UK and US, the author offers a critique of the cultural stereotyping and political conservatism that have pursued the playwrights in translation. She shows how the choices made by the translators and stagers of Fo and Rame's political theatre reveal attitudes toward foreign cultures and theatre generally and Italy in particular.
ENGLISH

Epistolary Selves - Letters And Letter-Writers, 1600â€“1945

209,54€ + 10% CARD

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 This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material.
ENGLISH

George Eliot And Europe

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 This book is based on a conference held in Warwick in July 1995. It is a collection of essays which explore various aspects of George Eliot's relation to the literature and culture of Continental Europe.
ENGLISH

Ignazio Silone In Exile - Writing And Antifascism In Switzerland 1929?1944

by Deborah Holmes

128,42€ + 10% CARD

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 Examines the developing role Ignazio Silone played in the intellectual life of Zurich. With archival research and critical approach to the pioneering methods and results of German 'Exilforschung,' this book opens the way for further studies on this little known aspect of Italian emigration culture.
ENGLISH

Illuminating Eco - On The Boundaries Of Interpretation

by Charlotte Ross

209,54€ + 10% CARD

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 The essays that comprise this volume evolved from a one-day conference concerned with projecting a British perspective on Umberto Eco, his body of work and the relationship of his fiction to his theoretical texts.
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