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TERRORISM REVISITED

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Eduardo Ledesma TERRORISM REVISITED Modernisme, Art, and Anarchy in the City of Bombs Abstract: Explosively charged and violently disparate terms such as Modernisme (Modernism), Anarchy and Culture–or cultural resistance–find a common space in the City of...

Giuliana Minghelli

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Academic Degrees: Studied at the University of Pisa; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Modernism; Film and Visual Studies; Questions of Landscape, Memory and National Identity; Italian Popular Culture

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Doris Sommer

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Professor Sommer's research interests have developed from the 19th-Century novels that helped to consolidate new republics in Latin America through the particular aesthetics of minoritarian literature, including bilingual virtuosity, to her current more...

Digital_Humanities

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by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp MIT Press, 141 pp., $16.00 JULIANNE VANWAGENEN - Form or content? Both I was reading Digital_Humanities on a Saturday evening just as my roommates and a group of friends were...

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in an Age of Urban Crisis

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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...

KALEIDOSCOPIC DEMOCRATIC VISTAS

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Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza KALEIDOSCOPIC DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Translating John Ashbery through Spanish and Latin American Poetry 1 While working on the galley proofs of my translation of John Ashbery’s Where Shall I Wander, I asked the poet about an idiom...

Italia reloaded. Ripartire con la cultura

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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...

Storia culturale della fotografia italiana. Dal Neorealismo al Postmoderno

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by Antonella Russo Einaudi, 428 pp., ill., € 35.00 CECELIA OLIVERIO Though the mere reference to the term “cultural history” is sometimes enough to push even the most tolerant of history buffs toward an apoplectic anxiety, fear not Antonella Russo’s ever...

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Submission Romance Sphere publishes reviews, essays, videos, and other materials pertaining to the culture, history, and society of countries, regions, or communities where French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or Catalan is spoken. Prior to submission...

Menzogna

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di Franca D'Agostini Bollati Boringhieri, 133 pp., 9.00 € DALILA COLUCCI - Per un'eudemonia della verità “C’è una teoria della verità di cui bisogna dare conto, ed è quella lanciata da Nietzsche negli ultimi decenni dell’Ottocento, e che ha avuto una...

Paura di cambiare. Crisi e critica del concetto di cultura

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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...

Roland Barthes, le métier d'écrire

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by Éric Marty Seuil, 335 pp., 23.30 € JOHN D'AMICO - « Images » de Roland Barthes Roland Barthes, le métier d’écrire, paru en 2006 aux Éditions du Seuil, est qualifié d’« essai », genre assez vague pour permettre à son auteur, Éric Marty, d’englober sous...