italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

Revised edition with ordering details!

ITALIAN LITERATURE AND CRITICISM - Book List October 2002

**All books are hardbacks in excellent secondhand condition, multiple
copies are available in most cases.  Prices include postage and packing.
We are happy to supply your university or departmental library. Ordering
details are available at the end of this list**


1].   Lajolo, Davide; Pietralunga, Mario (translator); Pietralunga, Mark
(translator). An Absurd Vice : A Biography of Cesare Pavese. New Directions
1983.  £27.50

2].   Peterson, Thomas Erling. Alberto Moravia. Twayne NY 1996.  £30.00

3].   Buccini, Stefania. The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture,
1700-1825.  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.  £27.50

4].   Allen, Beverly. Andrea Zanzotto : The Language of Beauty's
Apprentice. University of California Press, 1988.  £27.50

5].   Harrowitz, Nancy A. Anti-Semitism, Misogyny, and the Logic of
Cultural Difference. Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao.  University of
Nebraska Press 1994. £30.00

6].   Forgacs, David ed. Antonio Gramsci: Selections from Cultural
Writings. Harvard, 1985. £33.00

7].   Marinelli, Peter V. Ariosto and Boiardo : The Origins of "Orlando
Furioso". University of Missouri Press 1992. £28.00

8].   Anderson, David. Before the Knight's Tale : Imitation of Classical
Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida (Middle Ages Ser.) University of Pennsylvania
Press 1988.  £27.50

9].   Caporello-Szykman, Corradina. The Boccaccian Novella - Creation and
Waning of a Genre - Volume II
Peter Lang. 1990.  £30.00

10].   Hanly, Michael G.  Boccaccio, Beauveau and Chaucer : Sources for
Troilus and Criseyde. Pilgrim Books, 1991.  £27.00

11].   Hollander, Robert. Boccaccio's Last Fiction : Il Corbaccio.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.  £27.50

12].   Re, Lucia. Calvino and the Age of Neorealism: Fables of
Estrangement. Stanford Univ. Press 1990.  £30.00

13].   Radcliff-Umstead, Douglas. Carnival Comedy and Sacred Play : The
Renaissance Dramas of Giovan Maria Cecchi. University of Missouri Press,
1986.  £27.50

14].   Sbragia, Albert. Carol Emilio Gadda and the Modern Macaronic.
University Press of Florida, 1996.  £35.00

15].   Hart, Thomas R. Cervantes and Ariosto : Renewing Fiction. Princeton
University Press, 1989.  £27.50

16].   Bona, Mary Jo. Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers.
Southern Illinois UP 1999.  £29.50

17].   Parker, Deborah. Commentary and Ideology : Dante in the Renaissance.
Duke University Press, 1993 £27.50

18].   Dennis Looney. Compromising the Classics. Wayne State Univ. Press
1996.  £27.50

19].   Arico, Santo L. (editor)  Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A
Modern Renaissance. U. of Massachusetts 1990.  £29.00

20].   Dombroski, R.S. Creative Entanglements. Gadda and the Baroque.
University of Toronto Press, 1999.  £25.00

21].   Ginsberg, Warren. Dante's Aesthetics of Being. University of
Michigan Press 1998.  £27.50

22].   Cassell, Anthony K. Dante's Fearful Art of Justice. University of
Toronto Press, 1984.  £37.50

23].   Alison Milbank. Dante and the Victorians. Manchester University
Press 1998.  £30.00

24].   Luke, Helen M. Dark Wood to White Rose : Journey and Transformation
in Dante's Divine Comedy. Parabola Books, 1989.  £27.50

25].   Langer, Ullrich. Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance,
Nominalist Theology and Literature in France and Italy.  Princeton
University Press, 1990.  £27.00

26].   Morison, Stanley. Early Italian Writing Books : Renaissance to
Baroque. David R. Godine Publisher, Incorporated, 1990.  £27.50

27].   Haar, James. Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance,
1350-1600. University of California Press, 1986.  £40.00

28].   West, Rebecca J. Eugenio Montale. Poet on the Edge. Harvard
University Press 1981.  £28.50

29].   Wiggins, Peter D.  Figures in Ariosto's Tapestry : Character &
Design in the Orlando Furioso
Johns Hopkins, 1986.  £27.50

30].   Marcus, Millicent Joy. Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and
Literary Adaptation.  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 1993.
£30.00

31].   Quinones, Ricardo J. Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's Commedia.
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.  £27.50

32].   Lazzaro-Weis, Carol M.  From Margins to Mainstream : Feminism and
Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing, 1968-1990. University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1993.  £28.00

33].   Heiple, Daniel L.  Garcilaso de la Vega and the Italian Renaissance
(Studies in Romance Literatures)
Pennsylvania State University Press 1994.  £29.00

34].   Gunsberg, Maggie. Gender & the Italian Stage : From the Renaissance
to the Present Day. Cambridge University Press, 1997.  £33.00

35].   Panizza, Letizia (editor); Wood, Sharon (editor). A History of
Women's Writing in Italy. Cambridge University Press, 2000.  £40.00

36].   Benson, Pamela J. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The
Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and
England.  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.  £27.50

37].   Stewart, John. Italian Film : A Who's Who. McFarland & Company,
Incorporated Publishers, 1994.  £32.50

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE ANY OF THESE BOOKS IN YOUR UNIVERSITY
OR DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARY PLEASE PASS THIS LIST ONTO YOUR
LIBRARIAN - BOTH LIBRARIES AND INDIVIDUALS SUPPLIED.

38].   Gili, Jean A. Italian Filmmakers. Self Portraits: A Selection of
Interviews.  Gremese 1998.  £28.50

39].   Buss, Robin. Italian Films. Batsford, 1989.  £28.00

40].   Biasin, Gian-Paolo. Italian Literary Icons. Princeton University
Press. 1985.  £27.00

41].   Wood, Sharon. Italian Women's Writing, 1860 - 1994. Athlone, 1995.
£37.50

42].   Gatt-Rutter, John. Italo Svevo: a Double Life. Oxford University
Press 1988.  £33.00

43].   Kennedy, William J. Jacopo Sannazaro and the Uses of Pastoral.
University Press of New England, 1983.  £27.50

44].   Gilmour, David. The Last Leopard : A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di
Lampedusa. Pantheon Books, 1991.  £25.00

45].   Daniello, Bernardino; Hollander, Robert (editor); Vickers, Nancy J.
(editor); Brownlee, Kevin (editor); Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (editor). L'
Espositione di Bernardino Daniello da Lucca sopra la Comedia di Dante.
University Press of New England, 1989.  £27.50

46].   Took, J. F.  L' Etterno Piacer : Aesthetic Ideas in Dante. Oxford
University Press, 1984.  £28.50

47].   McLaughlin, Martin L. Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance
: The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to
Bembo. Oxford University Press, 1996.  £40.00

48].   Rodini, Robert J.; Di Maria, Salvatore. Ludovico Ariosto : An
Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1956-1980.  University of Missouri
Press, 1985.  £27.50

49].   Magliocchetti, Bruno (editor); Verna, Anthony (editor) The Motif of
the Journey in Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature. University Press of
Florida, 1994.  £27.00

50].   Smith, Lawrence R. (editor). The New Italian Poetry, Nineteen Forty-
Five to the Present : A Bilingual Anthology University of California Press,
1981.  £28.50

51].   Baranski, Zygmunt G. (editor); Pertile, Lino (editor). New Italian
Novel (Writers of Italy Ser.) Edinburgh University Press, 1993.  £37.00

52].   Tamburri, Anthony J. Of Saltimbanchi and Incendiari: Aldo
Palazzeschi and Avant-Gardism in Italy.
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. 1990.  £32.50

53].   Haller, Hermann W. The Other Italy: The Literary Canon in Dialect.
University of Toronto Press, 1999.  £28.00

54].   Ricci, Franco. Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures : Word and
Image in the Work of Italo Calvino. University of Toronto Press, 2001.
£38.00

55].   Liehm, Mira. Passion and Defiance - Film in Italy from 1942 to the
Present. Univ. of California 1984.  £28.50

56].   Boyle, Marjorie O.  Petrarch's Genius : Pentimento and Prophecy.
University of California Press 1991.  £27.50

57].   Sturm-Maddox, Sara. Petrarch's Metamorphoses : Text & Subtext in the
Rime Sparse. University of Missouri Press, 1985.  £27.50

58].   Caputi, Anthony. Pirandello and the Crisis of Modern Consciousness.
University of Illinois Press, 1988.  £28.50

59].   Shapiro, Marianne. Poetics of Ariosto. Wayne State Univ. Press,
1988.  £29.50

60].   Jewell, Keala. The Poiesis of History : Experimenting with Genre in
Postwar Italy. Cornell University Press 1992.  £27.00

61].   Jacoff, Rachel (editor); Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (editor). The Poetry of
Allusion : Virgil and Ovid in Dante's 'Commedia'. Stanford University
Press, 1991.  £29.50

62].   Peterson. Rose in Contemporary Italian Poetry. University Press of
Florida, 2000.  £32.00

63].   Levin, Joan H. Rustico di Filippo and the Florentine Lyric Tradition
(American University Studies: Romance, Languages and Literature, Ser. II,
Vol. 16) Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated, 1986.  £35.00

64].   Cope, Jackson I. Secret Sharers in Italian Comedy: From Machiavelli
to Goldini. Duke University Press, 1996.  £30.00

65].   McGregor, James H.  The Shades of Aeneas : The Imitation of Vergil &
the History of Paganism in Boccaccio's Filostrato, Filocolo, & Teseida.
University of Georgia Press, 1991.  £28.50

66].   O'Neill, Tom. (Editor). Shared Horizon, The: Melbourne Essays In
Italian Language and Literature In Memory of Colin McCormick. Irish
Academic Press. 1990. £30.00

67].   Parilla, Catherine. A Theory for Reading Dramatic Texts : Selected
Plays by Pirandello and Garcia Lorca (Currents in Comparative Romance
Languages and Literatures Ser., Vol. 24). Peter Lang Publishing,
Incorporated, 1995.  £35.00

68].   Durling, Robert; Martinez, Ronald L. Time and the Crystal : Studies
in Dante's "Rime Petrose"
University of California Press, 1990.  £40.00

69].   Schnapp, Jeffrey T. The Transfiguration of History at the Center of
Dante's Paradise. Princeton University, 1986.  £28.00

70].   Healey, Robin. Twentieth - Century Italian Literature in Translation
: An Annotated Bibliography, 1929-1997. University of Toronto Press, 1998.
£65.00

71].   Amoia, Alba. Twentieth-Century Italian Women Writers. Southern
Illinois University Press, 1996.  £30.00

72].   Patruno, Nicholas. Understanding Primo Levi. University of South
Carolina Press, 1995.  £22.00

73].   Olken, Ilene T. With Pleated Eye and Garnet Wing : Symmetries of
Italo Galvino. University of Michigan Press, 1984.  £28.50

74].   Wood, Sharon. Woman as Object. Language and Gender in the Work of
Alberto Moravia. Pluto Press / Barnes & Noble 1990. £30.00

75].   Dashwood, Julie R. (editor); Everson, Jane E. (editor). Writers &
Performers in Italian Drama, from the Time of Dante to Pirandello : Essays
in Honour of G.H. McWilliam. Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.  £48.00

76].   Galluci, Carole C.; Nerenberg, Ellen V. Writing Beyond Fascism:
Cultural Resistance in the Life & Works of Alba de Cbespedes. Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 2000.  £35.00

77].   Snyder, Jon R. Writing the Scene of Speaking : Theories of Dialogue
in the Late Italian Renaissance. Stanford University Press, 1989. £27.50

Please order from:-

Browns' Booksearch
4 The Gluyas
Falmouth
Cornwall
TR11 4SE

Tel: (01326) 219010
Fax: (01326) 219020
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

**********************************************************************
To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME
to: [log in to unmask]
To send a message to the list, address it to:
[log in to unmask]
To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies
to: [log in to unmask]
In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to:
[log in to unmask]
For further information, visit our web site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html