Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - Italian

This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering of voices old and new, some speak in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, and all together for the first time. To stand with all the other popular media images we represent, now, at last, one exists in written form, the literature of Italian American life.

Inside, there are excerpts from novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems -- by the living and the dead, the famous and the obscure. The excerpts...

One of the greatest works of world literature, Dante Alighieri s "The Divine Comedy "has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until now, students of the "Inferno "have lacked a suitable resource to guide their reading.
Welcome to "Danteworlds," the first substantial guide to the "Inferno" in English. Guy P. Raffa takes readers on a geographic journey through Dante s underworld circle by circle from the Dark Wood down to the ninth circle of Hell in much the same way Dante and Virgil proceed...

One of the greatest works of world literature, Dante Alighieri s The Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until now, students of the Inferno have lacked a suitable resource to guide their reading.
Welcome to Danteworlds, the first substantial guide to the Inferno in English. Guy P. Raffa takes readers on a geographic journey through Dante s underworld circle by circle from the Dark Wood down to the ninth circle of Hell in much the same way Dante...