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Book Synopsis The Italian Gothic and Fantastic by : Francesca Billiani
Download or read book The Italian Gothic and Fantastic written by Francesca Billiani and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meanwhile, by assimilating the Other into our own modes of representation of reality and imagination, twentieth-century female writers of the fantastic show how alternative identities can be shaped and social constituencies can be challenged."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Bulletin ... by : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Download or read book Bulletin ... written by Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales by : Cristina Mazzoni
Download or read book The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales written by Cristina Mazzoni and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales—most in English for the first time The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy’s political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France. This collection features a range of these entertaining jewels from such authors as Carlo Collodi, most celebrated for the novel Pinocchio, and Domenico Comparetti, regarded as the Italian Grimm, to Grazia Deledda, the only Italian woman to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. With one exception, all of these tales are appearing in English for the first time. The stories in this volume are linked by themes of metamorphosis: a man turns into a lion, a dove, and an ant; a handsome youth emerges from a pig’s body; and three lovely women rise out of the rinds of pomegranates. There are also more introspective transformations: a self-absorbed princess learns about manners, a melancholy prince finds joy again, and a complacent young woman discovers gratitude. Cristina Mazzoni provides a comprehensive introduction that situates the tales in their cultural and historical context. The collection also includes period illustrations and biographical notes about the authors. Filled with adventures, supernatural and fantastic events, and brave and flawed protagonists, The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales will delight, surprise, and astonish.
Book Synopsis The Enchanted Boot by : Nancy L. Canepa
Download or read book The Enchanted Boot written by Nancy L. Canepa and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English. This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms there was already a rich and sophisticated tradition that included hundreds of tales, including many of those today considered "classic." The authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between elite and popular cultures and oral and literary narratives, just as they have investigated the ways in which fairy tales have been and continue to be rewritten as expressions of both collective identities and individual sensibilities. The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.
Book Synopsis Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity by : Maria Truglio
Download or read book Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity written by Maria Truglio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept of recapitulation, which held that ontogeny (the individual’s development) repeats phylogeny (the evolution of the species), underlies the strategies of this corpus. Italian fairy tales, novels, poems, and short stories imply that the personal development of the child corresponds to and hence naturalizes the modernizing development of the nation. In the context of Italy’s uneven and ambivalent modernization, these narrative trajectories are enabled by a developmental melancholia. Using a psychoanalytic lens, and in dialogue with recent Anglophone Children’s Literature criticism, this study proposes that national identity was constructed via a process of renouncing and incorporating paternal and maternal figures, rendered as compulsory steps into maturity and modernity. With chapters on the heroic figure of Garibaldi, the Orientalized depiction of the South, and the role of girls in formation narratives, this book discloses how melancholic itineraries produced gendered national subjects. This study engages both well-known Italian texts, such as Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio and De Amicis’ Heart, and books that have fallen into obscurity by authors such as Baccini, Treves, Gianelli, and Nuccio. Its approach and corpus shed light on questions being examined by Italianists, Children’s Literature scholars, and social and cultural historians with an interest in national identity formation.
Download or read book Annual Bulletin ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the Grand Rapids Public Library by :
Download or read book Bulletin of the Grand Rapids Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by : Jack Zipes
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales written by Jack Zipes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford companion provides an authoritative reference source for fairy tales, exploring the tales themselves, both ancient and modern, the writers who wrote and reworked them and related topics such as film, art, opera and even advertising.
Book Synopsis Italian Popular Tales by : Thomas Frederick Crane
Download or read book Italian Popular Tales written by Thomas Frederick Crane and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Italian Popular Tales by : Thomas Frederick Crane
Download or read book Italian Popular Tales written by Thomas Frederick Crane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-12-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane's original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis. For 19th-century folklorist Thomas Crane, the value of collecting, translating, and reproducing folktales lay in their "internationalism"—their capacity to reveal how the customs of a particular group, no matter how unique, are linked to many others. In his classic collection, edited and updated by contemporary folklorist Jack Zipes, Crane traces the roots of Italian folktales to their origins, often in the Orient, then shows how they diffused in unpredictable and marvelous ways throughout Italy and over the centuries. A contemporary of the brothers Grimm, Crane offers a richer, more complex selection of oral and literary tales. Unlike the Grimms, he doesn't edit or modify the tales, which deal openly with surprisingly contemporary subjects: murder, adultery, incest, child abuse, and brutal vengeance.
Book Synopsis The Female Fantastic by : Gloria Alpini
Download or read book The Female Fantastic written by Gloria Alpini and published by Aras Edizioni. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Tutte le parole che non ho detto by : Antonella De Luca
Download or read book Tutte le parole che non ho detto written by Antonella De Luca and published by Meligrana Giuseppe Editore. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voler sintetizzare in breve il presente libro, già da subito c’è da dire che tre sono i termini di lettura su cui incentrare la nostra attenzione: Fede, Speranza, Amore. Mentre, per dar seguito al percorso narrativo, è bene seguire la freccia direzionale di un percorso umano che da subito porta dalla morte alla Vita. Ed è questo il traguardo verso cui ci proietta Antonella De Luca che ora ci propone una narrativa vispa, ammiccante, trascinante. È un percorso di umana sofferenza, una corsa contro il tempo per uscire da un baratro scuro e profondo e correre verso la luce, verso la Vita. Una corsa ad ostacoli sempre più alti, sempre più difficili da superare, per giungere all’abbraccio finale con la Vita.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies by : Jeremy Tambling
Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 1977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Book Synopsis Notes by : Music Library Association
Download or read book Notes written by Music Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis L’ Impietratrice by : Vittorio Imbriani
Download or read book L’ Impietratrice written by Vittorio Imbriani and published by eBook Free. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La sterminata erudizione dell’Imbriani, che nei romanzi è usata per sviare sardonicamente la narrazione, in questa “panzana”, tale è definita dall’autore, è usata per avviare invece la possibilità d’un diverso svolgimento storico, d’un’ucronia. Che il duca Valentino dopo la sconfitta in Italia sia morto in Spagna, è storia solo per chi conosce appena le fonti più note. Per chi come Imbriani è a conoscenza di tante rarità librarie, l’ultima parte di vita di Cesare Borgia ha ben altro esito. Che poi questo scorcio di biblioteca imbrianesca che sorregge la tesi storica, “preborgesianamente”, come è stato detto, mescoli edizioni false ma plausibili a edizioni vere ma improbabili, come può il povero lettore, impotente di fronte a tanto sfoggio di cultura, accorgersene? E così citazione dopo citazione libresca Cesare Borgia raggiunge il nuovo mondo e convince per amore la medusa azteca, la bellissima principessa che pietrifica chiunque la fissi negli occhi, Ciaciunena l’impietratrice, a essere strumento della sua vendetta e cambiare il corso storico delle cose italiane. Ma innamoratosi anche lui, l’audacia e la confidenza che anche come amante dimostra lo perde, e viene inavvertitamente pietrificato dalla fanciulla. Che disperata, vuole almeno portare a termine la vendetta dell’uomo che amava, e giunge in Vaticano alla presenza di Giulio II per pietrificare il papa e tutta la sua corte. Ma, com’è come non è, i suoi poteri lapidificatori decadono in questo emisfero e Giulio II scampa alla pietrificazione quanto al corpo; «quanto al cuore dell’augusto vegliardo, già da prima e da un pezzo era di sasso, di macigno, di scoglio», come lapidariamente – è il caso di dire – soggiunge l’explicit di questa serissima panzana. Neppure nel gioco letterario l’acre pessimismo d’Imbriani che colora di tragico il cinico e il beffardo della sua intuizione del mondo si placa. Né la storia d’Italia sa mutarsi in meglio e far pendere le sorti in favore della santa ambizione di Cesare Borgia d’unificarla. Sicché questa panzana che così bizzarramente illustra il suo pessimismo scava ben a fondo nelle scelte politiche d’Imbriani mettendo in luce e mostrando una delle convinzioni e degli atteggiamenti che infondono il suo spirito reazionario. (Fonte Wikipedia)
