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Books on: italian author

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The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature

Book by Rinaldina Russell; Greenwood Press, 1997

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Italian Literature--Women Authors--Dictionaries, Women In Literature--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...principal sublimated female archetype, however, is the mother, a figure wrought with ambiguity in the authors works. No other Italian author has been more adept at extrapolating a fictional universe from an idiosyncratic core of biographical...
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Revisionary Identities: Strategies of Empowerment in the Writing of Italian/American Women

Book by Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino; Peter Lang, 2000

Subjects:

American Literature--Italian American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Group Identity In Literature, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Italian American Women--Intellectual Life, Italian Americans In Literature, Power (Social Sciences) In Literature, Women And Literature--United States

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...Review 3/14/93 Gay Talese, an Italian/American author of eight books, published an essay entitled Where Are the Italian Ameri- can Writers? implying...debate ensued in the pages of Italian Americana 12.1 and 12.2 in...
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Voices of Italian America: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

Book by Martino Marazzi, Ann Goldstein; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004

Subjects:

American Literature--Italian American Authors--History And Criticism, Italian American Literature--History And Criticism, Italian Americans In Literature, Italian Americans--Intellectual Life, Italian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Italians--United States--Intellectual Life, United States--In Literature

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before that, the Italian American identity crisis had had...of the historical victories of the Italian explorers. He lived mainly in North...Italy). He is not, strictly, an Italian American author but, rather especially in the twenties...
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Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers

Book by Mary Jo Bona; Southern Illinois University Press, 1999

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American Literature--Italian American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Italian Influences, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Italian American Women--Intellectual Life, Italian Americans In Literature, Italy--In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...books. In 1995, Fred L. Gardaphe, author of Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative , introduced De Rosas...Paper Fish the first twentieth-century Italian American novel written by a woman to be...
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Women on the Italian Literary Scene: A Panorama

Book by Alba Della Fazia Amoia; Whitston, 1992

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Italian Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Italian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Italian Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism

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...considered a milestone in Italian literature, Lisola di Arturo...Italian television viewers by author Francesca Sanvitale, herself...successful and widely read woman author in modern Italian literature...of numerous miscellaneous authors who, by force of personal...testified to changing values in Italian society. Oriana Fallaci...

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Journal Articles on: italian author

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Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors

Journal article by Kathleen Zamboni Mccormick; MELUS, Vol. 28, 2003

Subjects:

Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (Book)--Reviews

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...Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors. by Kathleen Zamboni...Italian American authors and the work of other...these are not mere author studies. Rather...validated by reading Italian American authors, but that by writing...
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Subjects, Objects, Authors: The Portraiture of Women in Giulia Bigolina's Urania

Journal article by Christopher K. Nissen; Italian Culture, Vol. 18, 2000

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Authors, Italian--Social aspects, Bigolina, Giulia--Criticism and interpretation, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Italian literature--Social aspects, Italian writers--Social aspects, Love stories--Criticism and interpretation, Popular romances--Criticism and interpretation, Urania (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women--Portrayals

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...Subjects, Objects, Authors: The Portraiture of...as a writer of early Italian novellas, has been...gives to her own role as author and creator of her fictions...allegorical visitation of the author in her study, similar...give direction to the authors creative processes in...a flash, before the author has even had a chance...
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The Social Context of Literary Production in Post-War Friuli: Authors, Readers, and the Transformation of the Cultural Field

Journal article by John R.L. Johnson; Italian Culture, Vol. 19, 2001

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Art and society--Analysis, Books and reading--Social aspects, Dialect poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Dialect poetry--Social aspects, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy--Social aspects, Postmodern literature--Criticism and interpretation, Postmodern literature--Social aspects, Postmodernism (Literature)--Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature)--Social aspects, Readers (People)

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...regional publishers, to include Italian translations, usually by the author, and often characterised as...share the priority given by the author and De Mauro to political and...example, and bearing in mind the authors rare status as an authentically "popular" author, it seems unsuitable to state...
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Telling Tales out of School: The Fairy Tale and Italian Academies

Journal article by Suzanne Magnanini; The Romanic Review, Vol. 99, 2008

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Authors, Italian--Innovations, Authors, Italian--Works, Basile, Giambattista--Works, Fairy tales--Authorship, Fairy tales--History, Italian writers--Innovations, Italian writers--Works, Lo Cunto de li Cunti Overo lo Trattenemiento de Peccerille (Short fiction collection)--Authorship, Straparola, Gianfrancesco--Innovations, Straparola, Gianfrancesco--Works

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...Although like Basile the authors of fairy tales might be praised...likely also discouraged female authors from writing fairy tales. Indeed, Italian women would first experiment...step toward understanding how Italian academies shaped the fortunes...
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`We Were Working on an Erotic Song Cycle': Reading Carole Maso's AVA as the Poetics of Female Italian-American Cultural and Sexual Identity

Journal article by Roseanne Giannini Quinn; MELUS, Vol. 26, 2001

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Ethnicity in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Group identity--Social aspects, Italian Americans--Social aspects, Maso, Carole--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Renaissance." MELUS 14.34 (1987): 70-84. Giunta, Edvige. "Editorial: Italian/American Women Authors." Voices in Italian-Americana, Special Issue: Italian/American Women Authors. Ed. Edvige Guinta. 7.1 (1996): i-ix. Hackett...

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Magazine Articles on: italian author

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Sin and Be Happy: As Italians Prepare to Go to the Polls, the Author Tim Parks Identifies a Ritualistic Sparring That Is Destroying His Adopted Home and the Country He Loves

Magazine article by Tim Parks; New Statesman, Vol. 135, April 3, 2006

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Government officials--Crimes against, Public officers--Crimes against, Terrorism--Influence

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Sin and Be Happy: As Italians Prepare to Go to the Polls, the Author Tim Parks Identifies a Ritualistic...sanctity. I learned my Italian poring over melodramatic...usual. In an assessment of Italian customs written in 1826...better, he thought, "if Italians had no public life at all...world. Yet simultaneously Italians still feel that Italian food, Italian fashion...
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Colonial Fascism: In October 1935 Mussolini's Fascist Italian Forces Invaded Abyssinia (Now Ethiopia) at a Crucial Moment in the Run-Up to the Second World War. Daniel Whittall Looks at the Complex Issues the Invasion Raised in Britain and the Responses to It, Especially from Black Britons

Magazine article by Daniel Whittall; History Today, Vol. 60, October 2010

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British foreign relations--History, British foreign relations--Military aspects, British foreign relations--Political aspects, Dictators--Foreign policy, Dictators--Military policy, Ethiopian history--Military aspects, Ethiopian history--Political aspects, Fascism--Military aspects, Italian foreign relations--History, Italian foreign relations--Military aspects, Italian foreign relations--Political aspects, Mussolini, Benito--Foreign policy, Mussolini, Benito--Military policy

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...individuals and groups supported the Italian military assault. The British-Italian Council for Peace and Friendship...campaign in support of the Italian forces, while Evelyn Waugh...correspondent for the Daily Mail and author of the 1936 book Waugh in Abyssinia, also supported the Italians, though he later claimed...
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Reading the Italian Mind

Magazine article by Davide Berretta; Foreign Policy, May-June 2006

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Italian culture--Analysis, Italian culture--Portrayals, Italians--Political aspects, Italy--Social aspects, Severgnini, Beppe

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Reading the Italian Mind. by Davide Berretta...daily Corriere della Sera and author of the forthcoming La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind, Beppe Severgnini is a keen observer of the Italian culture and character. In...Italys politicians, and why Italians would rather write a book...
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Food: For a Maverick Italian with Fascist Leanings, Cooking Was a Revolutionary Act

Magazine article by Michele Roberts; New Statesman, Vol. 134, April 4, 2005

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Cookery, Italian--History, Cookery, Italian--Public opinion, Italian cooking--History, Italian cooking--Public opinion

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Food: For a Maverick Italian with Fascist Leanings, Cooking Was...intuitive antipasto"? Filippo Marinetti, author of The Futurist Cookbook (first published...and anti-feminism, that calls on Italians to liberate their lives, culture and...fascism prompted successive generations of Italians to try to ignore him. The English edition...
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Coming to Terms with Fascism in Italy: Mussolini Casts a Long Shadow. R J.B. Bosworth Describes How Italians of Both the Left and the Right Have Used Memories of His Long Dictatorship to Underpin Their Own Versions of History and Politics

Magazine article by R.J.B. Bosworth; History Today, Vol. 55, November 2005

Subjects:

Democratic Party of the Left (Italy)--Political activity, Dictators--Behavior, Fascism--History, Italian history, 1914-1945, Italy--Political aspects, Mussolini, Benito--Behavior

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Sociale Italiana (RSI, or Italian Social Republic). For the...and Nazi-Fascist armies, Italians engaged in a form of civil...authoritarian form of government on Italians than that provided by the...Bertoluccis film, 1900 (in Italian Novecento or the twentieth...the history of Fascism to Italians. Among professional historians...field was Renzo De Felice, author of a monumental political...

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Newspaper Articles on: italian author

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Italian Author Finds New Cultural Connection

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 15, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Italian Author Finds New Cultural...the history of Italians in this country...Journey of the Italians in America...interest in things Italian. All four of...not only of Italian but Irish...Portrait of the Italians in America...
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Italian Author Slams Islam's 'Hate' for West

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 23, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Italian author slams Islams hate for...is still to come, Italian author Oriana Fallaci told a receptive...Italy. The 72-year-old author described these efforts as...acquitted best-selling French author Michel Houellebecq of charges...ruled that the 44-year-old authors comments were "without a doubt...
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My Ship of Dreams; A Magnificent Five-Mast Clipper, the Sumptuous Amalfi Coast, Sunlit Italian Islands - When One of Britain's Favourite Authors Revisited a Treasured Boat, It Was like Falling in Love All over Again

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 1, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Sumptuous Amalfi Coast, Sunlit Italian Islands - When One of Britains Favourite Authors Revisited a Treasured Boat, It Was...everything was busy in the everyday frenetic Italian way. To find tranquillity, we had...For all the lofty serenity, and being Italians, they still contrive the occasional...
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Making You Feel at Home in Rome; WHAT Have Rome and Newcastle Got in Common? More Than You Would Think, Says Author Aminda Leigh, Who Swapped the North East for the Italian Capital Where She Fell in Love with "La Bella Vita". MIKE KELLY Reports

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), October 23, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Than You Would Think, Says Author Aminda Leigh, Who Swapped...to introduce readers to the Italian way of life by taking them...looking really elegant the Italian way, as well as suggestions...examples of how to do things the Italian way, both from a female perspective...also a sixth sense for the Italians. It is the importance of...
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AUTHOR'S NOTES; Family History with an Italian Flavour Inspired Lecturer Anita Arcari to Write Her First Novel

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 16, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AUTHORS NOTES; Family History with an Italian Flavour Inspired Lecturer...evocative tribute to those Italian immigrants who left their...result. So what was it about Italian immigrants that endeared them...late 1800s, the northern Italians, mostly Bardigiani, sometimes...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: italian author

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Machiavelli, NiccolÒ

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...kolo makyavel le, 1469 1527, Italian author and statesman, one of the outstanding...be able to establish a unified Italian state. The last chapter of the...office, as a detached analysis of Italian politics, as evidence of early...
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Pirandello, Luigi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...lwe je perandel lo, 1867 1936, Italian author, b. Sicily. One of the great...In 1897 he became professor of Italian literature at the Normal College...Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1922), Enrico IV (1922, tr...
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Giraldi, Giovanni Battista

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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GIRALDI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA jovan ne bat-tes ta jeral de, 1504 73, Italian author, known also as Cinthio, Cintio, Cinzio, or Cyntius. He wrote tragedies, lyric verse, and tales. Some of the stories in...
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Grazzini, Antonio Francesco

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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GRAZZINI, ANTONIO FRANCESCO anto nyo francha sko grat-tse ne, 1503 84, Italian author, one of the founders of the Accademia della Crusca (1550). He was an apothecary by trade. As a founder of the Accademia degli...
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Sacchetti, Franco

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SACCHETTI, FRANCO frang ko sak-ket te, c.1330 1400, Italian author. He held a number of public offices in Florence and wrote lyric verse and moral discourses. He is best remembered for his Novelle...

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