"These essays represent a broad array of the papers delivered at the fourth annual conference of the Italian Cultural Studies Association ... held in Boca Raton ... November 7-9, 2002"--P.
"These essays represent a broad array of the papers delivered at the fourth annual conference of the Italian Cultural Studies Association ... held in ...
Fiction. Fred Misurella's collection of stories, Lies to Live By, tells the complex, and sometimes secret truth about what it is to be alive in these complicated times. THe eight stories in this collection are deep in their understanding and widely varied in their subject matter. Misurella writes in the clearest, precise prose, and has as his special strength the joining of shining intelligence with deep emotion. LIES TO LIVE BY deserves a wide readership and serious attention,"-Kent Haruf. "All of Misurells's finely-drawn characters are "crossing a bridge, preparing to pass through the doors...
Fiction. Fred Misurella's collection of stories, Lies to Live By, tells the complex, and sometimes secret truth about what it is to be alive in these ...
Poetry. Translated to the Italian by Elisa Biagini, Luigi Bonaffini, Ned Condini, Luigi Fontanella, and Irene Marchegiani. Daneila Gioseffi's BLOOD AUTUMN/AUTUNNO DI SANGUE features selected poems and new work by the poet in both the original English and Italian translation. "Visionary and powerful. Tremendous vitality. A gifted and graceful writer"-Galway Kinnell. "A pleasure to read...Gioseffi's work is brilliant, compassionate, and timely"-D. Nurkse. SPD also carries WORD WOUNDS & WATER FLOWERS and GOING ON, as well as the Gioseffi-edited anthology WOMEN ON WAR: INTERNATIONAL WRITINGS.
Poetry. Translated to the Italian by Elisa Biagini, Luigi Bonaffini, Ned Condini, Luigi Fontanella, and Irene Marchegiani. Daneila Gioseffi's BLOOD AU...
Cultural Writing. SHIFTING BORDERS, NEGOTIATING PLACES is a compilation of papers presented at the international conference on cultural studies held at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2000 and indicate some of the many directions scholars working in cultural studies have taken. Presented in both English and Italian (without translation), these papers present investigations sparked by European political and economic unification, globalization, and the place of cultural studies in apprehending and theorizing transnational change. Cultural studies may have taken hold in Italy later than...
Cultural Writing. SHIFTING BORDERS, NEGOTIATING PLACES is a compilation of papers presented at the international conference on cultural studies held a...
The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra is one of the earliest Mahayana sutras and influenced the development of Prajnaparamita, Pure Land, and Yogacara philosophies. It propounds a particular samadhi, or meditation, called the meditation in which one is brought face to face with the Buddhas of the present or the meditation of direct encounter with the Buddhas of the present. This meditation is a developed form of the earlier practice of buddhanusmrti or calling the Buddha to mind. It also attempts to reconcile the vision of the Buddhas and Buddha-fields...
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The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra is one of the earliest Mahayana sutras and influenced the development of ...
The Hunger Saint is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as -a well-crafted and affecting literary tale, - this historical novella follows the journey of Ntoni, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily's sulfur mines to support his family after his father's untimely death. Faced with life-threatening working conditions, Ntoni must choose between escaping the mines and abandoning his family. As a series of unforeseen events soon complicate his plans, Ntoni realizes that all is not what it seems and to trust anyone might prove to be as fatal as being...
The Hunger Saint is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as -a well-crafted and affecting literary tale, - this hi...
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. A collection of poems on our attempts to read, or by diagnostics' Greek roots, to distinguish and discern, our place and condition in time.
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. A collection of poems on our attempts to read, or by diagnostics' Greek roots, to distinguish and discern, ...
