Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. This volume brings together all of Gianfranco Contini's essays on Dante. The collection opens with his Introduction to the Rime of Dante, a text he wrote in 1938 that has remained a point of reference for Dantean ex...
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The two stories presented in this volume focus on post-adolescent men (and, in ONE YEAR OF SCHOOL, a charismatic young woman) who are struggling with the distressing aspects of an existence they are just beginning to confront. In ONE YEAR OF SCHOOL ...
Literary Nonfiction. Translated by Jacques Houis. Jean-Pierre Cléro has provided the first detailed account of the influence of English-language psychoanalysts, philosophers, and mathematicians upon Lacan. He reveals the extent of Lacan's interest i...
Literary Nonfiction. Philosophy. Sociology. Political Science. Translated by Thomas Haskell Simpson. A philosophical investigation into freedom as reality's point of origin, the metaphysical quality of being. The main thesis of this essay is anchore...
Literary Nonfiction. Translated by Mimi C. Newton. Since her death in 1962, Marilyn Monroe has generated a plethora of narratives and an industry of images that portray her as everything from the embodiment of a dream to a self-destructive heroine. ...
Poetry. Edited by Gianluca Rizzo. Translated by Gianluca Rizzo and Dominic Siracusa. "Mariano Bàino's is among the most interesting poetry to be published at the end of last century; it is constantly straddling the border between different linguisti...
Literary Nonfiction. What is there in language that is so dreadful that, most often, man assents to it only in order to chatter rather than to speak? This book proposes a radically novel approach to the enigma of the superego, one of the most releva...
Literary Nonfiction. "At the time this anthology was being conceived an explicit tendency towards a new poetics did not exist. A group of poets had not rallied around the project of a new style. Nor did I ever have the intention to put one together....