Publications
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Rivolte urbane e rivolte contadine nell'Europa del Trecento
(2008)
The book contains the proceedings of the international conference held in Florence in the spring of 2005. It addresses the subject of the urban and rural revolts of the 14th century, which had recently undergone a period ...
Saggi di anglistica e americanistica
(2008)
"Saggi" brings together the results of the research activity carried out on the PhD course in English and American Studies (Department of Modern Philology, University of Florence). The contributions relate to the theatre, ...
Multiculturalismo alla francese?
(2009)
In theory, republican orthodoxy does not acknowledge the political dignity of any intermediary body between free and equal individuals, stripped of all particularism, and the sovereign nation. This is why, right up to the ...
Elfriede Jelinek
(2008)
This volume consists of a collection of essays by five German scholars from various Italian universities – R. Calabrese, R. Caruzzi, M. Fancelli, L. Perrone Capano, R. Svandrlik (editor) – and N. Šlibar from the University ...
Gli anni Sessanta a Leningrado
(2009)
This book offers a portrait of Leningrad in the 1960s, of its cultural life in those years permeated by a great hope for change. Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, is the heir and witness of the rise and fall of the 'Soviet ...
William Blake e William Butler Yeats
(2009)
Da Blake a Yeats. Sistemi simbolici e costruzioni poetiche is an investigation into the – from many aspects decisive – influence that the symbolic system and visionary poetry of the great English romantic William Blake had ...
W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana
(2009)
W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana examines the "Italianism" of William Butler Yeats and the popularity of the Irish poet in Italian poetry and criticism. Appraising the presence and evocative influence of "learned Italian ...
Tra sensi e spirito
(2009)
Tra sensi e spirito investigates the origins of a sort of 'Copernican revolution' that took place in western culture when music acquired an undisputed primacy over the other arts, becoming the privileged medium of metaphysical ...
La dottrina costituzionale di Sieyès
(2009)
The reception and popularity of the work of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès has gone through different and erratic phases. Nonetheless, in recent years there has been a remarkable revival of interest in the Abbé's thought. This ...
Go Southwest, Old Man
(2009)
Go Southwest, Old Man, a sort of personal remake of 'Go West, Young Man', the founding episteme of the American nineteenth century, conciliates these two souls (well, not to be pretentious, let's simply say two sides) that ...