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  • The Flavors of Modernity
    Gian-Paolo Biasin
    From Rabelais’s celebration of wine to Proust’s madeleine and Virginia Woolf’s boeuf en daube in To the Lighthouse, food has figured prominently in world literature. But perhaps nowhere has it played such a vital role as in the Italian novel. In a book flowing with descriptions of recipes, ingredients, fragrances, country gardens, kitchens, dinner etiquette, and even hunger, Gi...
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    47,60 €

  • Montale, Debussy, and Modernism
    Gian-Paolo Biasin
    Integrating the study of both music and art into an exploration of the early poetry of Eugenio Montale (1896-1982), this book situates Italy’s premier poet of the twentieth century within the Modernist movement. Gian-Paolo Biasin finds in Montale’s poetry broad resonances, reverberations, and comparisons that involve it in the European culture of its time and that invite the re...
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    47,65 €

  • Italian Literary Icons
    Gian-Paolo Biasin
    Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin explores a series of challenges posited for literary criticism by the success of semiotics, testing theoretical concepts not so much on theoretical grounds as in their practical application to literary texts from the high Romantic lyric of Ugo Foscolo to the postmodern, cosmicomic tales of Italo...
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    47,46 €

  • Literary Diseases
    Gian-Paolo Biasin
    Disease-real or imagined, physical or mental-is a common theme in Western literature and is often a symbol of modern alienation. In Literary Diseases, a comprehensive analysis of the metaphorical and symbolic force of disease in modern Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin expands the geography of the discussion of this important theme. Using as a backdrop the perspective of Eu...
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    26,88 €