Contemporary Italian Youth Television, Lucca Barra, Danielle Hipkins, Catherine O'Rawe, and Dana Renga, eds.
Featuring pieces from Italian Professors Dana Renga, Jonathan Mullins, and Qian Liu as well as FRIT PhD graduates Drs. Demetrio Antolini, Michela Bertossa, Dan Paul, and Enrico Zammarchi, this new edited volume is an exciting leap forward for Italian contemporary television.
From the Springer Nature Link website: This open-access volume is the first English-language study of the vibrant contemporary landscape of Italian youth-oriented television. TV shows addressed include internationally popular series such as SKAM Italia, Baby, Summertime, We Are Who We Are, Zero, Prisma, My Brilliant Friend, Mare Fuori, and many others. The collection explores the changing representation of young people, while contextualising these developments historically and industrially. The opening section examines key issues shaping contemporary Italian youth television, such as fashion, place, music, and language, with a focus on how Italian producers and outlets are adapting local practices in response to transnational production models and international distribution networks. The second and third sections offer focused readings of Italian youth TV series in this contemporary landscape, drawing on a wide range of thematic angles, from immigration to queer identities. Finally, the book concludes with interviews with major industry figures, who reflect on recent adjustments in production and distribution practices by public service broadcasters and digital platforms.
Troubadour Texts and Contexts: Essays in Honor of Wendy Pfeffer, Courtney Joseph Wells, Lisa Schubert Bevevino, and Sarah-Grace Heller, eds.
New interpretations of different aspects of troubadour texts and lyrics, from their main themes and motifs to their reception and influence.
From the Boydell and Brewer publisher website: Nearly a millennium after their songs of love, politics, war, satire, and redemption began to fill the courts of Europe, the troubadours continue to fascinate modern audiences. However, many aspects of their work, such as the supposedly adulterous nature of fin’amor, the “Frenchness” of the troubadours, the biographical veracity of the vidas, and the inherent misogyny of the troubadour lyric, have long been taken for granted. This volume takes a fresh look at these ideas, questioning many of the formative assumptions of troubadour scholarship, and proposing alternative readings of many canonical texts.
Essays offer a reconsideration of the reception of works by such important figures as Guilhem IX, Jaufre Rudel, Peire Vidal, Pistoleta, Guilhem Adhemar, Giraut de Borneil, Perdigon, Fulk of Marseilles, and Arnaut Daniel. There are also examinations of the lexicon and cultural uses of chess, azure and tin, and the changing landscape of the Rhone delta, providing a deeper understanding of the imagery they furnished. Other essays consider the later life of the manuscripts, including the surprising story of how Napoleon demanded certain Occitan manuscripts after his conquest of Italy. The collection as a whole is thus a fitting tribute to the pioneering work of Wendy Pfeffer, who has made such a contribution to the field of troubadour studies.
La Guerre des os, Benjamin Hoffmann
At the end of the 19th century, two American scientists, Charles Marsh and Edward Cope, engage in a merciless competition to unearth dinosaur skeletons and dominate the emerging field of paleontology. To win this “bone war,” Marsh, Cope, and their teams will stop at nothing: theft, corruption, espionage, and violence.
In pursuit of giant fossils, they encounter Buffalo Bill and the Sioux chief Red Cloud, General Custer, and President Ulysses S. Grant, at a time when the United States is being transformed by westward expansion, the Civil War, the gold rush, and the first transcontinental railroad. Illustrated with period documents, this thrilling narrative traces the birth of modern science and America itself, becoming a parable about humanity’s insatiable hunger for knowledge and recognition.
A Franco-American writer, Professor Benjamin Hoffmann is the author of novels and essays, including Les Paradoxes de la postérité (Minuit, 2019), Posthumous America (PSUP, 2019), L’Île de la Sentinelle(Gallimard, 2022), and Les Minuscules (Gallimard, 2024). A PhD graduate of Yale University, he is the College of Arts and Sciences Designated Professor of French and Francophone Literature at The Ohio State University.
Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies, Lucille Toth
Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies has just been published by University of Toronto Press! We are incredibly proud of the work Professor Toth and Dr. Eftihia Mihelakis (University of Brandon) have accomplished.
This book explores how physical experiences shape our understanding of health, disease, and illness, revealing the profound connections between literature and narrative medicine. Rooted in the belief that writing is a physically demanding process, the contributing authors examine the possibilities and limitations of embodied narratives through somatic experiences, challenging dominant perspectives on health, illness, and medicalization. In doing so, they address critical issues such as representation, power dynamics in the medical field, and the relationship between literary form and health-care discourse.