Golpe Borghese: Afterword to Under the Golden Sicilian Sun
Title | Golpe Borghese: Afterword to Under the Golden Sicilian Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Adam |
Publisher | Robert Adam |
Pages | 42 |
Release | |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1005538603 |
Afterword to the Robert Adam novel "Under the Golden Sicilian Sun", describing the events of the December 1970 "Golpe Borghese" - a military-backed coup attempt in Italy against a backdrop of escalating political violence, intended to trigger emergency powers for a government crackdown on the far-left. This volume also includes Chapter 1 of the novel and selected notes from the Miscellany.
Italian Crime Fiction
Title | Italian Crime Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Giulana Pieri |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2011-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1783164816 |
The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The 8 chapters in this volume explore the distinctive features of the Italian tradition from the 1930s to the present, by focusing on a wide range of detective and crime novels by selected Italian writers, some of whom have an established international reputation, such as C. E. Gadda, L. Sciascia and U. Eco, whilst others may be relatively unknown, such as the new generation of crime writers of the Bologna school and Italian women crime writers. Each chapter examines a specific period, movement or group of writers, as well as engaging with broader debates over the contribution crime fiction makes more generally to contemporary Italian and European culture. The editor and contributors of this volume argue strongly in favour of reinstating crime fiction within the canon of Italian modern literature by presenting this once marginalised literary genre as a body of works which, when viewed without the artificial distinction between high and popular literature, shows a remarkable insight into Italy’s postwar history, tracking its societal and political troubles and changes as well as often also engaging with metaphorical and philosophical notions of right or wrong, evil, redemption, and the search of the self.
Methods of Murder
Title | Methods of Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Elena M. Past |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2012-03-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1442698101 |
The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda. Many scholars have argued that detective fiction did not exist in Italy until 1929, and that the genre, which was considered largely Anglo-Saxon, was irrelevant on the Italian peninsula. By contrast, Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria’s Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso’s positivist Criminal Man. Through her examinations of these texts, Past demonstrates the links between literary, philosophical, and scientific constructions of the criminal, and provides the basis for an important reconceptualization of Italian crime fiction.
Ubi Sumus?
Title | Ubi Sumus? PDF eBook |
Author | John B. Hattendorf |
Publisher | Newport, R.I. : Naval War College Press |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages
Title | An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Diez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | Classical languages |
ISBN |
American Diplomatic and Consular Practice
Title | American Diplomatic and Consular Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Henry Stuart |
Publisher | New York, Appleton |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet
Title | Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Laskier Martin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0520328337 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.