In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing Italy fills this gap. The book introduces readers to films and documentaries by recognized women directors such as Cristina Comencini, Wilma Labate, Alina Marazzi, Antonietta De Lillo, Marina Spada, and Francesca Comencini, as well as to filmmakers whos ...
Propuestas para (re)construir una nacion explores how Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazan generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In h ...
Scholars have used Levinas as a lens through which to view many authors and texts, fields of endeavor, and works of art. Yet no book-length work or dedicated volume has brought this thoughtful lens to bear in a sustained discussion of the works of Shakespeare. It should not surprise anyone that Levinas identified his own thinking as Shakespearean. «The play's the thing» for both, or put differently, the observation of intersubjectivity is. ...
Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra America: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention and its answer is less obvious than you might think.This book charts Brazil's evolving and often conflicted relationship with the idea of Latin ...
By analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature. Through comparative discussion of the literatures of Palestinian citizens of Israel, of Mizrahim, of migrants from the former Soviet Union, and of Ethiopian-Israelis, the author demonstrates an unexpected richness and diversity in the Israeli literary scene, a re ...
George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland all received letters from the Hoosier humorist. Ade’s keen observation, compact and straightforward style, and understated humor mark his correspondence, as well as his im ...
Regardant les questions de temoignage, de confession, de traumatisme, de sexualite et de violence dans les ?uvres (semi-)autobiographiques, ce livre explore la co-construction d’identites personnelles et collectives par des femmes ecrivains a l’ere des medias et de l’autorepresentation. A une epoque ou la litterature francaise est souvent accusee d'etre egocentrique et trop narcissique, Mercedes Baillargeon avance que l’autofiction des femm ...
La pasion esclava aborda la discursividad masoquista en La Regenta (1884-1885) de Leopoldo Alas, Clarin, como una estrategia subversiva de dominio y sumision mediante la cual se rebaten los fundamentos del pensamiento liberal sobre la educacion, la agencia y la libertad del sujeto moderno. Frente a las investigaciones que priman el enfoque psicoanalitico de tradicion freudiana y vinculan el masoquismo a conductas perversas y pasivas, este estudi ...
While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expre ...
