Cultural Studies

by Amedeo Quondam Donzelli, 347 pp., € 28.00 CECELIA OLIVERIO “Would you care to bestow the grace of your dancing upon the gathered company?” asks the perfect courtier to his advisee. “Why, most absolutely not, my dear friend,” a slightly less than...

by Francesco Erspamer Donzelli, 169 pp., € 16.00 JOHN WELSH - The Invention of Culture It is a conversation all too familiar for anyone involved in the humanities. It happens most frequently in situations of involuntary socialization—parties, receptions...

by Christian Caliandro and Pier Luigi Sacco Il Mulino, 146 pp., 13.50 € JULIANNE VANWAGENEN - Culture as investment In the book’s premise, authors Christian Caliandro and Pier Luigi Sacco clearly state their goals for the work: (1) distinguish between...

by Douglas Biow Stanford University Press, 246 pp., $19.95 DAN TURELLO The ideals of grace and ease were ones that came to find great success and cultural currency during the Renaissance, in great measure thanks to the writing of Baldassarre Castiglione’s...

by Letizia Modena Routledge, 267 pp., $146.00 ($99.75 ebook) DAN TURELLO “If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell you how Octavia, the spider-web city, is made. There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound...

di Tzvetan Todorov Arléa, 61 pp., € 5.00 DALILA COLUCCI Appassionato studio sulle delicate questioni della memoria e dell’oblio nelle società occidentali alle soglie del secondo millennio, Les Abus de la Mémoire gioca la sua partita teorica sul pericoloso...