Guides to Italian Literature
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The Cambridge History of Italian Literature by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PQ4038 .C35 1999 )Publication Date: 1999This substantial history of Italian literature provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing since its earliest origins. Leading scholars describe and assess the work of writers who have contributed to the Italian literary tradition, including Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, the Renaissance humanists, Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, pioneers and practitioners of commedia dell'arte and opera, and the contemporary novelists Calvino and Eco.
Dizionario delle opere della letteratura italiana by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PQ4006 .D49 2006 )Publication Date: 2006
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PQ4170 .C36 2003 ) and OnlinePublication Date: 2003The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era.
Voices of Italian America by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2011Voices of Italian America presents the first authoritative study and anthology of the largely Italian-language literature written and published in the U.S. from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880-1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before and after WWII.
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PQ4006 .O84 2002 )Publication Date: 2003Embracing the whole of Italian literature, from the early thirteenth century to the present, The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature takes a broad view of what constitutes literature, covering historical writing, travel writing, theatre, and philosophy as well as the novel, poetry, literary dialogues, and critical theory.
Text Collections
Italian Language
- Opera del Vocabolario ItalianoTextual database that contains 1960 vernacular texts (22.3 million words, 456,000 unique forms) the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers.
Italian Literature
- Duecento: la poesia italiana dalle origini a DanteFulltext archive of Italian poetry from its beginnings thru the time of Dante.
- Italian Women WritersThe Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. The goal is to bring information on and texts by both famous and previously neglected Italian women writers to a wider audience of students, scholars, teachers, and the general public, and to preserve these often fragile texts for generations to come.
- Italian Dialect PoetryCollection of Italian dialect poetry organized by poet name and region.
Finding Articles
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- Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
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Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
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Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after Jan. 1, 2000.
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This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
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The Linguistics Collection is comprised of index and full-text databases covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The collection includes the Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), which abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. And Linguistics Database, which includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics including many titles indexed in LLBA.
Literary Biography
- Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
- Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
- Dizionario biografico degli Italiani This link opens in a new windowBiographical dictionary of Italians who have contributed to the artistic, historic, political, scientific, religious, literary, and economic life of Italy from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present.
- Dizionario autori italiani contemporaneiLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PQ4057 .D58 2006 )Publication Date: 2006
Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana, 2a ed. by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PQ4057 .D59 1986 )Publication Date: 1986
Dante: a brief history by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PQ4335 .H39 2006 )Publication Date: 2006For over seven centuries, Dante and his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, have held a special place in Western culture. Peter Hawkins has written an inspiring introduction to the poet, his greatest work, and its abiding influence. His knowledge of Dante and enthusiasm for his vision make him an expert guide for the willing reader.
Primo Levi: bridges of knowledge by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PQ4872.E8 Z58 1995 )Publication Date: 1995A survivor of the Holocaust, his memoirs on the Nazi death camps (If This Is a Man and The Truce) are internationally recognised as among the most powerful and profound testimonies to have come out of the extermination of the European Jewry. This book is the first comprehensive introduction to Levi and his writing for English-speaking readers.
Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PQ4063 .I885 1996 )Publication Date: 1996A collection of essays providing feminist interpretations of Italian women's literary and cinematic production over the centuries.
