Books in the Troubador Italian Studies series

The story of the love between Italian writer Pirandello, and his muse, actress Marta Abba.

This is the first book in English on the friendship that sprang up between these two major writers and the effects on both of that friendship. The encounter has long been undervalued by scholars, largely because Joyce and Svevo themselves appeared at times to attach relatively little importance to it, but it was in fact far from tangential to the development of their careers, coming as it did at key moments in their lives. This book is the first full study of the effect on both writers of their encounter and their unlikely friendship, in the light of the parallels between their life experiences and their shared culture.Stanislaus Joyce said: 'The happy chance that brought these two remarkable men together was a literary event that is likely to increase rather than decrease in interest in years to come'. A study of this unlikely friendship by an experienced Italianist will have much that is useful to say in this regard, particularly as our understanding of the importance of Svevo's Jewishness has changed greatly in recent years.

This book is the first English translation of Bellanova's 1943 anthology. The work and it's contextualizing introduction will give readers an insight into the themes, preoccupations and stylistic character of late Futurist poetry

This interdisciplinary volume addresses the multiple dimensions of the ageing experience of Italian migrants in South Australia by revisiting the concepts of health and wellbeing, intergenerational family care-giving practices and the role of language and culture in the ageing process.

Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm is the first book-length analysis of the representation of the feminine in Calvino's fiction. Using the structural umbrella of the Pygmalion paradigm and using feminist interpretative techniques, this book offers interesting alternative readings of two of Calvino's important early narrative collections.

What can two countries at the edge of Europe with very different histories, people and climates have in common? When brought together as they are in this book, probably for the first time, Sicily and Scotland prove to have some surprising similarities as well as more predictable differences.

The second of a two volume set of books which looks at the work of all those who wish to understand the important of Italo Svevo's work

The first of a two volume set of books which looks at the work of all those who wish to understand the important of Italo Svevo's work

This is the first book to analyse the aesthetics and narrative structures of Bertolucci's films.

This is the first book to analyse the aesthetics and narrative structures of Bertolucci's films by using affective and cognitive theory in order to determine the ways in which they engageviewers emotionally and intellectually.

This book of essays explores the notion of Italian identity in a wide range of forms, including linguistic identity and unifying concepts evident in DanteΓÇÖs Commedia, environmental studies and issues related to gender and sexuality viewed through the lens of Italian literature, hybrid identity in a migration context, and regional identity with a particular focus on Sicily.

The book aims to be the most useful and engaging introduction to the medieval Italian poet Guido Cavalcanti in English.

This book is on the nature of love in two of the world's greatest love poets writing within the Catholic tradition and bearing witness, each in a highly original way, to the relation between human and divine love.

This new book identifies and analyses the echos of Levi's holocaust experiences, tracing the ways in which hist first work of testimony to the concentration camps is re-visited, re-worked and re-written throughout his subsequent work

A new and extensive biography of the twentieth century author Grazia Deledda.

Essays on director and actor Roberto Benigni's work in Italian cinema

Recognised as the Italian capital of noir, Bologna (Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy) continues to produce striking writers. This book introduces Marilu Oliva, defined by Maurizo de Giovanni and Matteo Strukul as the most incisive voice of noir in Italy.

This book examines the evocation of place in the roles of Dino Buzzati and Else Morante.