This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thin…
No other European country experienced the disruption of political and everyday life suffered by Italy in the so-called 'years of lead' (1969-1983). This title traces how the experience and legacies of terrorism have determined the form and content of Italian cultural production …
"No other European country experienced the disruption of political and everyday life suffered by Italy in the so-called 'years of lead' (1969-c.1983), when there were more than 12,000 incidents of terrorist violence. This experience affected all aspects of Italian cultural life,…