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At the heart of Pulcinella is Agamben's exploration of an album of 104 drawings, created by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) near the end of his life, that cover the life, adventures, death, and resurrection of the title character.
Kore, also called Persephone and referred to poetically by the Greeks as "the unspeakable girl," was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades and made queen of the netherworld. This title presents three richly detailed treatments of the myth of Kore.
A collection of Jesi's finest essays, ranging from his groundbreaking work on myth and politics to his reflections on time, festivity, and revolt as well as writers such as Rimbaud, Rilke, Lukacs, and Pavese.
The story of an adolescent boy's erotic and sentimental education in 1930s Fascist Italy.
A collection of essays on the mysteries of the body from one of Italyâ¿s leading postwar communist intellectuals. Politician, translator, and journalist Rossana Rossanda was the most important female left-wing intellectual in post-war Italy. Central to the Italian Communist Partyâ¿s cultural wing during the 1950s and â¿60s, she left an indelible mark on the life of the mind. The essays in this volume, however, bring together Rossandaâ¿s reflections on the bodyâ¿how it ages, how it is gendered, what it means to examine oneâ¿s own body. The product of a decades-long dialogue with the Italian womenâ¿s movement (above all with Lea Melandri, a vital feminist writer who provides an afterword to the current volume), these essays represent an honest and raw meeting between communist and feminist thought. Ranging from reflections on her own hands through to Chinese cinema, from figures such as the Russian cross-dressing soldier Nadezhda Durova to the Jacobin revolutionary Theroigne de Mericourt, here we see Rossandaâ¿s fierce intellect and extraordinary breadth of knowledge applied to the body as a central question of human experience.
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