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Book Ricordo di Einaudi

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  • Author : Alberto Giovannini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ricordo di Einaudi written by Alberto Giovannini and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Author in Criticism

Download or read book The Author in Criticism written by Elio Attilio Baldi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (such as gender and background), and translation and the language in which the author speaks (or fails to speak) to us. It traces the influence of these aspects in the academic discourse on Calvino. The Author in Criticism also analyzes Calvino’s various professional roles as writer, editor, essayist, journalist, private correspondent, and public, cosmopolitan intellectual, reappraising their often little acknowledged importance for academic criticism. An important underlying idea is that the preconceived image that every critic has of Calvino before even opening one of his books is often solidified and repeated even in the most refined and complex critical analyses. This volume purposefully foregrounds the textual and non-textual parts that are usually considered peripheral to the works of an author, such as book covers, blurbs, reviews, talks, interviews, etc. In this way, this book provides insight into the reception of Calvino’s works in different countries. Moreover, it forms a broader reflection of and on important constants in the workings of literary criticism, and on the way academic discourses have developed in various cultural contexts over the last decades.

Book The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni

Download or read book The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni written by Vittorio Sereni and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important Italian poets of the last century, Vittorio Sereni (1913–83) wrote with a historical awareness unlike that of any of his contemporaries. A poet of both personal and political responsibility, his work sensitively explores life under fascism, military defeat and imprisonment, and the resurgence of extreme right-wing politics, as well as the roles played by love and friendship in the survival of humanity. The first substantial translation of Sereni’s oeuvre published anywhere in the world, The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni is a unique guide to this twentieth-century poet. A bilingual edition, reissued in paperback for the poet’s centenary, it collects Sereni’s poems, criticism, and short fiction with a full chronology, commentary, bibliography, and learned introduction by British poet and scholar Peter Robinson.

Book The Rhythm of Thought in Gramsci

Download or read book The Rhythm of Thought in Gramsci written by Giuseppe Cospito and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars have recently shown great interest in a diachronic re-examination of Antonio Gramsci’s main theoretical-political categories in the Prison Notebooks. This method would uncover the origins and development of Gramsci’s concepts using the same method that Gramsci himself believed would allow us to grasp ‘the rhythm of thought’ in Marx. The present work embraces this perspective and puts it to work in two ways. Its first part analyzes the relation between structure and superstructure and the concepts of hegemony and the regulated society. Its second part extends the diachronic analysis to the conceptual pairings which represent alternatives to structure-superstructure, encompassing questions of political and cultural organisation as well as the relation between Gramsci and the major proponents of historical materialism (Marx, Engels, Lenin). English translation of Il ritmo del pensiero: per una lettura diacronica dei «Quaderni del carcere» di Gramsci published by Bibliopolis, Naples (2011).

Book The Man Who Closed the Asylums

Download or read book The Man Who Closed the Asylums written by John Foot and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked for life. This was a concentration camp, not a hospital. Basaglia, the new Director, was expected to practise all the skills of oppression in which he had been schooled, but he would have none of this. The place had to be closed down by opening it up from the inside, bringing freedom and democracy to the patients, the nurses and the psychiatrists working in that “total institution.” Inspired by the writings of authors such as Primo Levi, R.D. Laing, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon, and the practices of experimental therapeutic communities in the UK, Basaglia’s seminal work as a psychiatrist and campaigner in Gorizia, Parma and Trieste fed into and substantially contributed to the national and international movement of 1968. In 1978 a law was passed (the “Basaglia law”) which sanctioned the closure of the entire Italian asylum system. The first comprehensive study of this revolutionary approach to mental health care, The Man Who Closed the Asylums is a gripping account of one of the most influential movements in twentieth-century psychiatry, which helped to transform the way we see mental illness. Basaglia’s work saved countless people from a miserable existence, and his legacy persists, as an object lesson in the struggle against the brutality and ignorance that the establishment peddles to the public as common sense.

Book European Identity and the Second World War

Download or read book European Identity and the Second World War written by Menno Spiering and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War.

Book Ricordo di Luigi Einaudi

Download or read book Ricordo di Luigi Einaudi written by Giovanni Spadolini and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences

Download or read book On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences written by Luigi Einaudi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.1.3 The anthropological background: The individual and the collective -- A.2 Excursus -- A.3 Value judgments, economics, philosophy -- A.3.1 The issue of value judgments -- A.3.2 Economics, philosophy and the whole man -- Bibliography -- Index.

Book Ricordo di Luigi Einaudi  1874 1961

Download or read book Ricordo di Luigi Einaudi 1874 1961 written by Gianni Marongiu and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natalia Ginzburg

Download or read book Natalia Ginzburg written by Nadia Castronuovo and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Ginzburg’s Jewishness in her autobiographical writings and traces the shift in her self-representation. It brings together substantial historical background on the period surrounding the Racial Laws, when Natalia Ginzburg and other Italian Jews were forced to confront the significance of their Jewishness. It highlights the reactions by Jews and non-Jews to the growing anti-Semitism of the times. In this context, moral identity is also discussed as a facet of Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani’s Jewish identity.

Book A Companion to Antonio Gramsci

Download or read book A Companion to Antonio Gramsci written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Companion to Antonio Gramsci some of the most important Italian scholars of Gramsci's thought realize a sort of intellectual account of the Gramscian historiography.

Book The Holocaust in Italian Culture  1944   2010

Download or read book The Holocaust in Italian Culture 1944 2010 written by Robert Gordon and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many thousands of Italians—Jews and others—were deported to concentration camps throughout Europe. After the war, Italian culture produced a vast array of stories, images, and debate through which it came to terms with the Holocaust's difficult legacy. Gordon probes a rich range of cultural material as he paints a picture of this shared encounter with the darkest moment of twentieth-century history. His book explores aspects of Italian national identity and memory, offering a new model for analyzing the interactions between national and international images of the Holocaust.

Book Ricordo di Luigi Einaudi

Download or read book Ricordo di Luigi Einaudi written by Antonio D'Aronma and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Einaudi  In A Time Lapse

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  • Author : Ludovico Einaudi
  • Publisher : Chester Music
  • Release : 2013-02-07
  • ISBN : 1783230134
  • Pages : 87 pages

Download or read book Einaudi In A Time Lapse written by Ludovico Einaudi and published by Chester Music. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recorded in a remote monastery in Verona, Ludovico Einaudi's In A Time Lapse explores the concept of capturing emotions and experiences in a single moment in time. This exclusive matching piano songbook presents all 14 tracks from the album, plus five bonus pieces, in beautifully crisp notation. Songlist: - Corale - Time Lapse - Life - Walk - Discovery at Night - Run Brothers - Orbits - Two Trees - Newton's Cradle - Waterways Experience - Underwood - Burning - Bever - The Dark Bank Of Clouds - Sarabande - Ronald's Dream - Corale Solo

Book Antonio Gramsci

Download or read book Antonio Gramsci written by Alistair Davidson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many large Italian cities have a main thoroughfare ‘via Gramsci’, showing that the Communist leader has become part of Italy’s ‘national patrimony’, while internationally, the interest in Gramsci’s writings is second to none. As a consequence of this fame, Gramsci’s heritage is claimed by rival groups: on the one hand by those who hope to establish his writings as ‘sacred texts’ for their own policies and on the other by those who stress any differences with Lenin in order to prove Gramsci a ‘rebel’. A great merit of this biography is that it lifts the study of Gramsci away from the sterile debate about whether he was or was not a Leninist; another achievement of the author has been to integrate the circumstances of Gramsci’s life – the childhood in Sardinia, the politics of the left in the 1920s, the years of exile and prison – with his developing political and philosophical ideas.

Book Primo Levi

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  • Author : Mirna Cicioni
  • Publisher : Berg
  • Release : 1995-12-01
  • ISBN : 9781859730584
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Primo Levi written by Mirna Cicioni and published by Berg. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primo Levi (1919-1987) is one of Italy's most distinguished writers. A survivor of the Holocaust, his memoirs on the Nazi death camps (If This Is a Man and The Truce) are internationally recognized as among the most powerful and profound testimonies to have come out of the extermination of European Jewry. This book is the first comprehensive introduction to Levi and his writing for English-speaking readers. The author draws attention to the literary worth of Levi's entire output - not just the Holocaust testimonies for which he is primarily known - and situates his works in the context of Italian culture and society from the 1920s to the 1980s. A man with many identities - chemist, industrial manager and writer - he tried, through his writing, to build bridges between different cultures and fields of enquiry.

Book Threads and Traces

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  • Author : Carlo Ginzburg
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2012-09-02
  • ISBN : 0520274482
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Threads and Traces written by Carlo Ginzburg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburgʾs latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians"--Provided by publisher.