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    • The Great Social Issues of Our Time
      (2018)
      Questo volume esamina criticamente le grandi questioni sociali del nostro tempo: prima tra tutte la grande crisi del capitalismo globale scoppiata nel 2008, e poi le trasformazioni dello stato, la crescita strutturale delle ...
    • al-Farāfīr
      (2018)
      Based on the Hegelian dialectic of the servant-master, this comedy represents, with the sarcasm and irony typical of its author, a profound reflection on the relationships between human beings. Starting from the local, ...
    • Armenia, Caucasus, and Central Asia
      (2019)
      This new volume in the series "Eurasiatica. Quaderni di studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia" by Edizioni Ca' Foscari of Venice collects several articles devoted to Armenia, Caucasus and Central Asia. ...
    • Meeting Houses
      (2018)
      En estas Casas de citas, las casas son la arquitectura y las citas son la literatura: aquí se analizan y se reivindican las relaciones íntimas entre una y otra. La casa es el lugar y la cita es la palabra. Casas de citas es ...
    • Elites and Culture
      (2019)
      The PhD programme in Ancient History and Archaeology, now merged into the one in Antiquity in agreement with Udine and Trieste, has represented, at Ca’ Foscari, an important moment of growth in the field of antiquity with ...
    • Genealogies and Geographies of Anti-Democracy in the European Crisis of the 1930s
      (2019)
      The European responses to the inter-war years crisis were marked by the emergence of fascist and corporatist movements and regimes, combined with the creation of cultural and political networks of the radical right. Their ...
    • Phonodia
      (2018)
      This essay focuses on the ‘voice’ as it sounds in a specific type of recordings. This recordings always reproduce a poet performing a poem of his/her by reading it aloud. Nowadays this kind of recordings are quite common ...
    • The New World
      (2019)
      As shown in a movie by Ettore Scola, a precinematic device called ‘mondo niovo’ could entertain people by illustrating the ‘new world’ opened by the French Revolution. After 1797 in the territories of the former Republic ...
    • Serenísima palabra
      (2017)
      From the 14th to the 18th July 2014, more than 200 scholars, coming from 21 countries and belonging to 126 universities, centres and institutions, met in Venice to celebrate the X International Conference of the Asociación ...
    • Freemasonry and the Orient
      (2019)
      The symbolic and historical dimension of the main founding archetypes of Freemasonry – the Orient with a special focus on Egypt – are at the core of this book, which aims to recover the red thread with which masons tie ...
    • Catholic Antisocialism
      (2019)
      The remarkable and still increasing expansion of the international Socialist movement at the beginning of the 20th century was an important matter of concern for Catholic Church. This identified socialism as the last ...
    • Theologus Dantes
      (2018)
      The contributions collected in these Acts offer a varied and articulate representation of the relations between Dante Alighieri’s work and late-medieval theological culture, observed in some of its fundamental aspects and ...
    • The poetriae of the Latin Middle Ages
      (2018)
      This book offers a reflection upon Medieval Latin artes poetriae and aims to spur the scientific debate on them by means of eleven papers written by internationally-kwown scholars. The essays investigate, according to ...
    • “Enter the Editor and He Says": Ecdotics and Theatrical Annotations (16th and 17th Centuries)
      (2018)
      La edición de las didascalias escénicas es uno de los pasos más delicados de la labor del crítico textual, sobre todo en el caso de las acotaciones del teatro de los siglos XVI y XVII, cuyos textos nos han llegado de manera ...
    • Critical Perspectives on Iberian Studies
      (2019)
      The recent emergence of ‘Iberian Studies’ requires a crucial reflection on the challenges and potentialities associated with this area. This volume intends to contribute to methodological renewal and compiles essays that ...
    • Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition
      (2019)
      This book gathers together two essays. The first deals with the origins of the character of Farhād, the unlucky lover of Shīrīn, who – in the Persian narrative tradition – digs a route through Mount Bīsutūn and accomplishes ...
    • Seleucid Tablets from Uruk in the British Museum
      (2018)
      Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong ...
    • For an Imperial Dimension
      (2019)
      With the conquest of the first colonial territories at the end of the nineteenth century, imperial rhetoric began to circulate not only among the Venetian calli but also among the desks of Ca’ Foscari. The public discourse ...
    • America: The Tale of a Continent
      (2019)
      In this collection, the multifaceted character of Latin American literature takes the form of an itinerary that shows plural and heterogeneous aesthetic expressions. The aim of the book is to think, once again, about the ...
    • Classical Spanish Theater in the Cinema
      (2019)
      This book aims to deepen the relationship between classical Spanish theater and cinema through the analysis of a corpus which has been only partially studied and recently rescued by critics. The chapters first deal with ...