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Italian Cultural Studies
Carlo Baghetti• Jim Carter• Lorenzo Marmo (eds.) Italian Industrial Literature and Film
Oxford, 2021. XIV, 554 pp., 4 fig. col., 21 fig. b/w. Italian Modernities. Vol. 40
pb. • ISBN 978-1-78874-598-7 CHF 39.– / €D 33.95 / €A 34.– / € 30.90 / £ 25.– / US-$ 37.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-1-78874-599-4 CHF 39.– / €D 33.95 / €A 34.– / € 30.90 / £ 25.– / US-$ 37.95
This book explores the representation of industrial labor in Italian literature and film from the 1950s through the 1970s. The first article of the postwar Italian Constitution states that the Republic is founded on labor. Forces across the political spectrum, from Catholic to communist, invested labor with the power to build a new national community after Fascism and war. The 1950s1970s saw dramatic transformations, in economic, social and cultural terms, as labor moved from agriculture to industry and a whole generation of Italian writers and filmmakers used literature and cinema to interpret – and influence – these changes and to capture the new experiences of industrial labor. The essays in this book offer a comprehensive panorama of this generation’s work, examining key questions and texts, set against the context of history and theory, gender and class, geography and the environment, as well as their precursors and present-day successors.
Simona Bartoli Kucher• Fabrizio Iurlano (Hrsg.) Quo vadis, italiano? Letteratura, cinema, didattica e fumetti Literatur, Film, Didaktik und Comic
Scenari multimodali e transdisciplinari Multimodale und transdisziplina¨re Konstellationen
Berlin, 2022. 252 S., 4 farb. Abb., 44 s/w Abb. Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies. Bd. 9
geb. • ISBN 978-3-631-84716-9 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-86649-8 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.70 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95
Questa raccolta di saggi su parole, immagini e testi, mettendo al centro il legame tra lingua e creatività, si rivolge a docenti, studenti e a chiunque si interessi di lingue e letterature, con l’obiettivo di rinnovare l’attenzione sulla cultura italiana in una prospettiva di incontro interdisciplinare, interculturale e plurilingue.
Dieser Sammelband über Worte, Bilder und Texte beabsichtigt, einen Beitrag zu den vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Sprache und Kreativität zu leisten. Er richtet sich an Sprach- und Literaturinteressierte, Lehrende und Studierende mit dem Ziel, die italienische Sprache und Kultur in interdisziplinärer, interkultureller und mehrsprachiger Perspektive in den Blick zu nehmen.
Fabio Forner• Franz Meier• Sabine Schwarze I periodici settecenteschi come luogo di comunicazione dei saperi. Prospettive storiche, letterarie e linguistiche
Berlin, 2022. 598 p., 5 ill. b/n, 19 tab. Europa periodica. Studies on Periodicals and Newspapers. Vol. 1
ril. • ISBN 978-3-631-84028-3 CHF 116.– / €D 99.95 / €A 102.80 / € 93.50 / £ 76.– / US-$ 112.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-85942-1 CHF 116.– / €D 99.95 / €A 102.90 / € 93.50 / £ 77.– / US-$ 112.95
Il presente volume raccoglie ventiquattro saggi, frutto di studi svolti principalmente sui periodici francesi, italiani e tedeschi del XVIII secolo. I contributi si occupano, con taglio di volta in volta storico, letterario e linguistico, di alcuni fra i più rilevanti prodotti del giornalismo settecentesco: i periodici eruditi, le riviste scientifiche, il giornalismo spettatoriale, quello enciclopedico e quello politico. Dai saggi raggruppati in questo volume esce un’immagine senza dubbio rinnovata, per complessità e ricchezza di particolari, dei periodici pubblicati nel XVIII secolo. Pur nella loro eterogeneità, essi sono diventati l’architrave del dialogo culturale europeo anche perché non si sono rivolti solo a un selezionato pubblico di dotti, ma, in alcuni casi, ai lettori semplicemente alfabetizzati.
Emanuela Patti
Opera aperta
Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present
Oxford, 2022. XX, 308 pp., 11 fig. col., 8 fig. b/w. Italian Modernities. Vol. 39
pb. • ISBN 978-1-78997-859-9 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.20 / € 55.60 / £ 45.– / US-$ 67.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-1-78997-860-5 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.20 / € 55.60 / £ 45.– / US-$ 67.95
«At last, here is a book written by an Italian about the homeopathic but essential role that Italian artists, and among them, important writers, have played to introduce the digital transformation to Italians. Long before government or business, and least of all educators, took notice, artists, as was their wont for centuries, were the first to reveal the potential of the new technologies. Emanuela Patti not only pays them a long overdue tribute, but along the way revisits with care and engaging style the key features of that transformation. A wonderful read!» (Professor Derrick de Kerckhove, University of Toronto) «We were missing a systematic survey of e-literary arts
