The Many Voices Of Contemporary Piedmontese Writers

Author : Andrea Raimondi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443858420
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Voices of Contemporary Piedmontese Writers written by Andrea Raimondi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Cesare Pavese, Beppe Fenoglio and Primo Levi have in common? Apart from their obvious Piedmontese origins, they and other writers coming from this Italian region share a certain tendency towards multilingualism, which is a characteristic that has not been comprehensively investigated over the years. This study presents a linguistic analysis of a group of modern and contemporary narratives written by Piedmontese authors. The novels and short stories here examined are notable for the intriguing way in which they move between a variety of idioms – Standard Italian, regional vernaculars, English and pastiches (with rare excursions into French). With the support of linguistic and philosophical theories on the relation between identity, alterity and language, the book demonstrates how the use of non-standard parlances is fundamental in both reinforcing the sense of belonging to specific social groups and highlighting the presence of dissimilar identities and ‘other’ cultures. A sociolinguistic study and an analysis of the political and historical context of the region are also provided in order to illustrate how the combination of different varieties in literature reflects the region’s peripheral position, as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in Piedmont since the nineteenth century. This book fills a notable gap, and casts new light on Piedmontese literature.

Author : Andrea Raimondi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527530701
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Bridge between the United Kingdom and Piedmont written by Andrea Raimondi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History books frequently refer to supposed similarities between the Italian region of Piedmont and the United Kingdom and their respective inhabitants. Historians, with a certain degree of emphasis, have described as a “special relationship” or an “ancient friendship” this long-term and privileged liaison. Regardless of the rhetoric, an ancient friendship really did exist, and perhaps still does. The alliance between Piedmont and the United Kingdom, though temporarily spoiled by passing clouds, was cemented by the common French threat as well as the necessity, for the United Kingdom, of gaining access to the Mediterranean, while the Piedmontese state may not have survived situated between aggressive enemies and large empires without British backup. It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that both countries simply needed each other. However, what history books frequently neglect to recount are the existences of the individuals who, with their hopes, works and sometimes a certain degree of chance, contributed to the invisible bridge linking the Italian region with the British Isles. This book collects the stories of eight individuals and a special book in order to investigate UK-Piedmont relationships from an unusual and privileged perspective.

Author : Valentina Vetri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031299086
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetics, Ideology, Dissent written by Valentina Vetri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the translations carried out by Italian novelist Beppe Fenoglio, one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century. It stems from the acknowledgement that Beppe Fenoglio’s translations have not been examined in the political, cultural and ideological context in which they were produced, but have been dismissed as a purely linguistic exercise. The author examines Fenoglio’s translations as culturally and ideologically informed artistic expressions, in which Fenoglio was able to give voice to his dissent towards the mainstream ideology and poetics of his times, often choosing authors and characters with whom he identified, such as Shakespeare, Milton and Marlowe. The interaction between the theories of Translation Studies, Literary Theory and Adaptation Studies foregrounds the centrality of the role of the translator, showing how Fenoglio’s ideology and poetics were clearly visible both in the selection of the texts he translated and in his translation strategies.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527222
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Modernity and the Passionate South written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective, the gender dimension of a process that legitimised internal hierarchies between North and South in the continent. It also analyses how this phenomenon was responded to from Spain and Italy, pointing to the similarities and differences between both countries. Drawing on travel narratives, satires, philosophical works, novels, plays, operas, and paintings, it shows how this transnational process affected, in changing historical contexts, the ways in which nation, gender, and modernity were imagined and mutually articulated.

Author : Johann Lorenz Mosheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5H/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Form the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century written by Johann Lorenz Mosheim and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Dictionary of authors written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
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Download or read book Warner's Dictionary of Authors Ancient and Modern written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph M. Flora
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South written by Joseph M. Flora and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993-08-23 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary flowering of Southern literary talent in the early twentieth century, the Southern Literary Renascence, has continued virtually unabated, showing increasing vitality in recent decades. These newer fiction writers, poets, dramatists, and journalists reflect in their work the changing social conditions of the South while also presenting traditional Southern values and qualities. Their astonishing output constitutes a phenomenon worthy of being called a Second Southern Literary Renascence. Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain, editors of the acclaimed Fifty Southern Writers before 1900 and Fifty Southern Writers after 1900, found that they could only begin to suggest the continuing abundance and significance of Southern writing in the latter volume. Retaining the same format, they have developed two new volumes for the contemporary period. The first, focusing on fiction, comprises forty-nine talented novelists, including such popular figures as Pat Conroy, Gail Godwin, T. R. Pearson, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker. The companion volume, (Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook forthcoming from Greenwood Press) will cover primarily poets, playwrights, and essayists as well as fiction writers who have made major contributions to these other genres. The essays, written by scholars and critics, present in each case a biographical sketch, an analysis of the writer's style and major themes, an assessment of reviews and scholarship, a chronological list of works, and a bibliography of selected criticism. Considered individually and comparatively and with attention to the editors' introductory essay, these bio-bibliographical studies clearly demonstrate the state and strength of Southern letters.

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521802652
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Italian Theatre written by Joseph Farrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Italian theatre from its origins to the the time of this book's publication in 2006. The text discusses the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The distinctive nature of Italian theatre is expressed in the individual chapters by highly regarded international scholars.

Author : Georgann Eubanks
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899526
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont written by Georgann Eubanks and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture--insights rarely found in travel guidebooks. Featured authors include O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, and David Sedaris. Literary Trails is an exciting way to see anew the places that you already love and to discover new people and places you hadn't known about. The region's rich literary heritage will surprise and delight all readers.