The Ulysses Butterfly La Farfalla di Ulisse

The Ulysses Butterfly La Farfalla di Ulisse
Author: Virna Chessari
Publisher: Passerino Editore
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

“The Ulysses Butterfly La farfalla di Ulisse" is a Poetry collection in English and Italian, which tells the story of a woman who finds herself and her inner strength, and ultimately learns how to fly.In the book, joyful events alternate with moments of discouragement and abandonment, and with dreams and sweet memories that colour with tenderness the void of the present.Alongside is the great love between her parents to which she dedicates the collection, and also the love of a wife for the husband lost too soon and that of a generous and exemplary mother.“Surrounded by ghosts haunting our lives, poems allow us to lose ourselves in search of something indefinite. In her verses, the author expresses the illusion, well lived, of an oneiric life escaping banal reality. It is a soul that awakens in the writing, bringing to light intimate passions, waking dreams; it is the confirmation that the best way to escape the ordinary is poetry”, from the Foreword of the journalist Mario Azzolini. "The Ulysses Butterfly La farfalla di Ulisse" è una raccolta poetica in inglese e in italiano che racconta la storia di una donna che riscopre se stessa e la sua forza interiore fino ad imparare a volare.Nella narrazione si alternano vicende liete e momenti di sconforto, abbandoni ma anche sogni e dolci ricordi che colorano di tenerezza i vuoti del presente. Sullo sfondo l'amore grande dei genitori a cui è dedicata la raccolta e in particolare quello di una moglie per lo sposo perso troppo presto e mai sopito e di madre generosa ed esemplare.“Poesie per perdersi alla ricerca di qualcosa di indefinito circondati da fantasmi che popolano le nostre vite. L'autrice nelle sue rime esprime l'illusione ben vissuta di una vita onirica che sfugge la banale realtà. È un'anima che si risveglia nella scrittura, mettendo in luce intime passioni, sogni ad occhi aperti; la conferma che non c'è modo migliore per sfuggire alla normalità che la poesia", dalla Prefazione del giornalista Mario Azzolini. Virna Chessari graduated from Palermo University in Classical Literature, studying Latin and Greek. She is an Italian and History teacher at a high school in Palermo, where she is in charge of communication and projects of innovative teaching like Avanguardie Educative-Indire. She is also a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teacher. She has been published in newspapers, magazines and cultural websites. Poetry in particular is a recent adventure for her. Some of the poems in the collection have been published in Straylight Magazine and Blue Lake Review. She has found in English the right notes to express her inner world and her missing words. Virna Chessari, docente di Lettere Classiche e CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) insegna Italiano e Storia in una scuola secondaria di Palermo dove è referente della comunicazione e di progetti di didattica innovativa come Avanguardie Educative-Indire. Suoi contributi sono stati pubblicati in giornali, riviste, siti e blog di divulgazione culturale. La Poesia, in particolare, è una recente avventura. Alcune poesie della raccolta sono state pubblicate nelle riviste americane “Straylight Magazine” e “Blue Lake Review”. L'autrice ha trovato nell'Inglese la melodia per dare voce al suo mondo interiore, alle parole mancanti.

The Beatles, Popular Music and Society

The Beatles, Popular Music and Society
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1349622109

More has been written about the Beatles than any other performing artists of the twentieth century. Accounts of their lives and times have been retold, reproduced and reinvented to the extent that their achievements have passed into contemporary folklore and popular mythology. What has been surprisingly absent, however, is any sustained critical investigation of the numerous debates and issues the group provoked. This book provides that long overdue analysis, by seeking to present the academic study of the Beatles in its appropriate contexts - historical, political, musical and sociological. Consisting entirely of newly commissioned articles and written by an international group of scholars, its contents challenge many of the traditional assumptions about the Beatles and offer fresh and provocative insights into the nature of their success and its continuing influence. It is essential reading for those wishing to understand not only the phenomenon of the Beatles but also the cultural environment within which popular music continues to be practised and studied.

Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema

Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema
Author: Gino Moliterno
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Italian cinema is regarded as one of the great pillars of world cinema. Films like Ladri di biciclette (1948), La dolce vita (1960), and Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) attracted unprecedented international acclaim and a reputation, which only continue to grow. Italian cinema has produced such acting legends as Sophia Loren and Roberto Benigni, as well as world-renowned filmmakers like Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lina Wertmuller, the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Director award." "The Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Italian cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black--white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology."--BOOK JACKET.

Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work

Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work
Author: Damiano Benvegnù
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319712586

Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Relatively unexamined by scholars, the complex and extensive animal imagery Levi employed in his literary works offers new insights into the aesthetical and ethical function of testimony, as well as an original perspective on contemporary debates surrounding human-animal relationships and posthumanism. The three main sections that compose the book mirror Levi’s approach to non-human animals and animality: from an unquestionable bio-ethical origin (“Suffering”); through an investigation of the relationships between writing, technology, and animality (“Techne”); to a creative intellectual project in which literary animals both counterbalance the inevitable suffering of all creatures, and suggest a transformative image of interspecific community (“Creation”).