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Partial Visions: Feminism And Utopianism In The 1970s (Ralahine Utopian Studies #16)
by Angelika BammerPositing that a radical utopianism is one of the most vital impulses of feminist politics, Partial Visions traces the articulation of this impulse in the work of Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. It argues that this feminist utopianism both continued and reconceptualized a critical dimension of Left politics, yet concludes that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - time and culture bound - as well.
Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers
by Jane B. Singer David Domingo Ari Heinonen Steve Paulussen Thorsten Quandt Zvi Reich Marina Vujnovic Alfred HermidaWho makes the news in a digital age? Participatory Journalism offers fascinating insights into how journalists in Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclusion of content produced and published by the public. A timely look at digital news, the changes it is bringing for journalists and an industry in crisis Original data throughout, in the form of in-depth interviews with dozens of journalists at leading news organizations in ten Western democracies Provides a unique model of the news-making process and its openness to user participation in five stages Gives a first-hand look at the workings and challenges of online journalism on a global scale, through data that has been seamlessly combined so that each chapter presents the views of journalists in many nations, highlighting both similarities and differences, both national and individual
Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
by Bruce MutsvairoThis book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of technologies in driving change in Africa.
Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
by Bruce MutsvairoThis book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of technologies in driving change in Africa.
Participatory Worlds: The limits of audience participation (Routledge Advances in Transmedia Studies)
by José BlázquezThis book is an in-depth analysis of participatory worlds, practices beyond the mainstream models of content production and IP management that allow audience members to contribute canonically to the expansion of storyworlds, blurring the line between the traditional roles of consumers and producers. Shifting discussions of participatory culture and cross-media production and consumption practices to more independent media contexts, the book explores the limits, borders and boundaries of participating in today’s digital media storyworlds. The text examines how audience participation works, identifying opportunities to make it a meaningful practice for audiences and an asset for IP owners, and discussing the challenges and barriers that the application of participatory culture brings along. The book defines what meaningful participation is by introducing the concept of ‘intervention’ and explains a range of factors impacting the way in which participatory worlds and relationships between producers, audiences and the world are shaped. This volume will be of great relevance to media practitioners, scholars and students interested in transmedia storytelling, fandom, literary studies and comparative literature, new media and digital culture, gaming and media studies.
Particle Verbs in English: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
by Han LuoThis book explains why cognitive linguistics offers a plausible theoretical framework for a systematic and unified analysis of the syntax and semantics of particle verbs. It explores the meaning of the verb + particle syntax, the particle placement of transitive particle verbs, how particle placement is related to idiomaticity, and the relationship between idiomaticity and semantic extension. It also offers valuable linguistic implications for future studies on complex linguistic constructions using a cognitive linguistic approach, as well as insightful practical implications for the learning and teaching of English particle verbs.
Parting Words: Victorian Poetry and Public Address (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
by Justin A. SiderValedictory addresses offer a way to conceptualize the relation of self to others, private to public, ephemeral to eternal. Whether deathbed pronouncements, political capitulations, or seafaring farewells, "parting words" played a crucial role in the social imagination of Victorian writing. In this compelling new book, Justin Sider traces these public addresses across a wide range of works, from poems by Byron, Tennyson, and Browning, to essays by Twain and Wilde, to novels by Dickens and Eliot.Ironically, while the Victorian era saw the loss of faith in a unitary national public, it asked poetry to address just such a public. Attending to the form, rather than the discursive content, of poets' engagement with public culture, Parting Words explains how the valedictory allowed Victorian poets to explore the ways their poems might be received by distant and anonymous readers in an emergent mass culture. Using a wide array of materials such as letters and reviews to describe the rapidly changing print culture in which poets were intervening, Sider shows how the growing diversification and destabilization of the Victorian reading public was countered by the demand for a public poetry. Characteristically, the speakers of Tennyson's "Ulysses" and Matthew Arnold's "Empedocles on Etna" imagine their farewells as simultaneous entrances into a public space where they and their readers, however distant, might yet meet. This new consciousness anticipated modernist poetry, which in turn used the valedictory to underscore the futility and alienation of such hopes.
Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction
by Jaydip SarkarThis book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It discusses Partition as not just an immediate historical catastrophe but as a lingering cultural presence and consequently a potent trope in literary and visual representations. The volume features essays on key texts – written and visual – including Train to Pakistan, "Toba Tek Singh", Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others. Partition Literature and Cinema will be indispensable introductory reading for students and researchers of modern Indian history, Partition studies, literature, film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history.
Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics)
by Jing JinPartition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers and conducts a comprehensive examination on the use of different quantity constructions in Chinese. This book echoes a rapid development in the past decades in Chinese linguistics research within the generative framework on Chinese classifier phrases, an area that has emerged as one of the most cutting-edge themes in the field of Chinese linguistics. The book on the one hand offers a closer scrutiny on empirical data and revisits some long-lasting research problems, such as the semantic factor bearing on the formation of Chinese numeral classifier constructions, the (non-)licensing of the linker de (的) in between the numeral classifier and the noun, and the conditions regulating the use of pre-classifier adjectives. On the other hand, particular attention is paid to the issues that have been less studied or gone unnoticed in previous studies, including a (more) fine-grained subcategorization of Chinese measurement constructions, the multiple grammatical roles played by the marker de (的) in different numeral classifier constructions, the formation and derivation of Chinese partitive constructions, etc.
Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure: Subjects, Agreement, Case and Clitics (Routledge Leading Linguists)
by Dominique SporticheThis collection brings together some of Dominique Sportiche's best work, including essays that are published here for the first time. The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization. This view takes shape through the analysis of a variety of syntactic configurations and essays examine what it means to be a Subject, how Case marking functions, how it relates to Agreement, and how Pronominal Clitic Constructions should be analyzed.
Partizipation für alle und alles?: Fallstricke, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten
by Astrid Lorenz Uwe Hitschfeld Christian Pieter HoffmannBasierend auf einer Darstellung herausfordernder Projekte, diskutiert der Band Grenzen der politischen Partizipation in Deutschland und identifiziert Erfolgsfaktoren. Zunächst rücken ausgewählte Projekte in das Blickfeld, bei denen Bemühungen um mehr Partizipation nicht immer zum gewünschten Ergebnis führten. Grenzen der Beteiligung im politischen System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland werden systematisch analysiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund arbeiten mehrere Beiträge schließlich Erfolgsfaktoren für Partizipation heraus. So entsteht ein fundiertes Bild von Beteiligung als kommunikatives Verfahren der Integration und kollektiven Entscheidungsfindung aus Sicht von Wissenschaft und Praxis.
Partners of the Imagination: The Lives, Art and Struggles of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy
by Robert LeachPartners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, partners in writing and cultural and political campaigns. Beginning in the 1950s, Arden and D’Arcy created a series of hugely admired plays performed at Britain’s major theatres. Political activists, they worked tirelessly in the peace movement and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’, during which D’Arcy was gaoled. She is also a veteran of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace camp. Their later work included Booker-listed novels, prize-winning stories, essays and radio plays, and D’Arcy founded and ran a Woman’s Pirate Radio station. Raymond Williams described Arden as ‘the most genuinely innovative’ of the playwrights of his generation, and Chambers and Prior claimed that ‘The Non-Stop Connolly Show’, D’Arcy and Arden’s six-play epic, ‘has fair claim to being one of the finest pieces of post-war drama in the English language’. This study explores the connections between art and life, and between the responsibilities of the writer and the citizen. Importantly, it also evaluates the range of literary works (plays, poetry, novels, essays, polemics) created by these writers, both as literature and drama, and as controversialist activity in its own right. This work is a landmark examination of two hugely respected radical writers.
Partnership for Health: Building Relationships Between Women and Health Caregivers (Routledge Communication Series)
by Christina S. Beck Sandra L. Ragan Athena du Pr‚ Athena du PreIn the 1960s, feminists voiced their outrage about the health care system in the United States which routinely discriminated against women and, in so doing, literally jeopardized their health and well-being. Over a decade later, women's health advocates still stressed the need for reform of this male-dominated institution because of the on-going threat to the health of American women. In the 1990s, nearly 40 years after women began their fight for quality and equitable treatment from the medical profession, women unfortunately continue to confront problems on numerous levels including discrimination in medical research and in the availability of insurance and health care providers. Most alarming, however, is the fact that women today--like women in the '60s and before--lack information, understanding, and adequate diagnoses and treatment from their health caregivers. This book extends from a program of research on women's health issues by the authors. More than 150 audio-taped, naturally occurring interactions between health caregivers and their female patients from three different health care settings--as well as ethnographic field notes in three additional settings which provide health care to women-- constitute the data for this investigation. They explore the consequentiality of relational issues during women's health care encounters and examine how health care participants save face, enact roles, co-construct their encounters, and accomplish the objective of education and medical care. Unlike earlier works, this study utilizes an extensive data collection derived directly from hundreds of interactions between health care providers and their patients, as opposed to surveys or case studies of singular practitioners. The authors examine the data in light of insights from a variety of theoretical perspectives and are committed to exploring the implication that medical encounters are collaboratively managed by both patients and caregivers. Given these theoretical and empirical contributions, the authors believe this book will advance present understanding in the areas of health and relational communication, women's health care, gender issues in communication, conversation analysis, discourse processes, and institutional talk.
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
by Chun Han WongFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People's Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having masked his beliefs while climbing the party hierarchy, Xi has centralized decision-making powers, encouraged a personality cult around himself, and moved toward indefinite rule by scrapping presidential term limits-stirring fears of a return to Mao-style dictatorship. Today, the party of Xi favors political zeal over technical expertise, trumpets its faith in Marxism, and proclaims its reach into every corner of Chinese society with Xi portraits and hammer-and-sickle logos. Under Xi, China has challenged Western preeminence in global affairs and cast its authoritarian system as a model of governance worthy of international emulation.As a China reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Chun Han Wong has chronicled Xi's hardline strategy for crushing dissent and his political repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Wong spent five years in Beijing before the Chinese government forced him to leave mainland China in 2019, after which he moved to Hong Kong and continued writing about Xi's leadership. Now, Wong has drawn on his years of first-hand reporting across China to create a lucid and historically-rooted account of China's leader, and how he inspires fear and fervor in his party, his nation, and beyond.Timely, revelatory, and important, Party of One explains how the future Xi imagines for China will reshape the future of the entire world.
Parva: A Tale of War, Peace, Love, Death, God and Man
by S. L. Bhyrappan K. Raghavendra RaoParva is a terrific insight into Mahabharatha. It takes the godly halo from the characters and presents them as human beings with needs as natural as all of us have. The question is whether the characters are still worshipable.
Parzival and Titurel (Oxford World's Classics Series)
by Richard Barber Cyril Edwards Wolfram Von EschenbachWritten in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival's growth from youthful folly to knighthood at the court of King Arthur, and of his quest for the Holy Grail. Exuberant and gothic in its telling, and profoundly moving, Parzival has inspired and influenced works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, Terry Gilliam's film The Fisher King, and Umberto Eco's Bandolino. <p><p>This fine translation, the first English version for over 25 years, conveys the power of this complex, wide-ranging medieval masterpiece. The introduction places Eschenbach's work in the wider context of the development of the Arthurian romance and of the Grail legend. This edition also includes an index to proper names and a genealogical table, and is the first to combine Parzival with the fragments of Titurel.
Pas de Probleme: Student Book
by Madeleine Hummler Brigitte Rix Elspeth NicholsPas de problème is a highly illustrative and communicative course designed for adults of all ages, from those with a 'rusty' recollection of school French to those advancing in the acquisition of a new language on a fast track. It will give students a thorough grounding in all the skills required to understand, speak, read and write contemporary French.The coursebook consists of 12 lively, illustrated chapters covering different broad themes and providing plenty of diverse material from technical to light-hearted. A wide range of registers is covered, from everyday idioms to formal letter-writing phrases. Each chapter contains the following: * sections reminding students of essential vocabulary and structures* explanations of new grammar in one single block for easy reference* reading and listening exercises* new vocabulary lists to aid self-study* role-playing exercises * internet addresses for further research* boxes containing helpful learning tips Audio files to accompany this book are available free of charge at www.routledge.com/cw/hummler
Pasajes de Fernando González
by Carolina Sanín"Quizás no pueda decirse, sin tergiversarlo fatalmente,qué fue lo que dijo Fernando González. La manera apropiadao posible de estudiar a quien han llamado elfilósofo paisa parece ser leerlo sin aspirar a explicarlo, yluego tratar de ver qué direcciones ha tomado uno dentrode su escritura. He escogido de la obra de Gonzálezlos fragmentos que me parecieron más representativos#aquellos a través de los cuales creí que el lector podríareconstruir los libros de los que se extrajeron# ytambién aquellos con los que resonó mi pensamiento.El conjunto resultante es otro libro que el autor escribió:el que escribió en mí. Ojalá siga escribiendo en los lectoresque ahora encuentre".Carolina Sanín
Pasajes de Fernando González
by Carolina Sanín PazUna antología de uno de los mejores escritores colombiano. "Quizás no pueda decirse, sin tergiversarlo fatalmente,qué fue lo que dijo Fernando González. La manera apropiadao posible de estudiar a quien han llamado elfilósofo paisa parece ser leerlo sin aspirar a explicarlo, yluego tratar de ver qué direcciones ha tomado uno dentrode su escritura. He escogido de la obra de Gonzálezlos fragmentos que me parecieron más representativos#aquellos a través de los cuales creí que el lector podríareconstruir los libros de los que se extrajeron# ytambién aquellos con los que resonó mi pensamiento.El conjunto resultante es otro libro que el autor escribió:el que escribió en mí. Ojalá siga escribiendo en los lectoresque ahora encuentre".Carolina Sanín
Pasar fijándose
by Carolina SaninUna recopilación de las mejores columnas de Carolina Sanín Pasar fijándose reúne las mejores columnas de Carolina Sanín. Publicadas desde el año 2008 en medios como El Espectador, Arcadia, Vice, Credencial y Semana Sostenible, no han dejado de cautivar a sus lectores, no sólo por los temas que aborda (feminismo, política, medio ambiente, cine, literatura, y muchos otros de difícil clasifificación), sino por el origen de esa variedad: la atención, el interés, la seriedad con que mira el mundo. "Desde que encontré la literatura y el pensamiento de Sanín no he dejado nunca de asombrarme ante el refinadísimo lente a través del cual mira las cosas. Su mirada es penetrante y fractal; desemboca en otras miradas que, a su vez, siguen derivándose. Ese sentido del infifinito es lo que siento cuando leo cualquier cosa que ella escribe. Un día me atreví a preguntarle: "¿Cómo haces?", y ella me contestó: "No sé, es como rezar"". Margarita Rosa de Francisco "Carolina Sanín fija la mirada para que sus palabras desnuden y limpien de obviedades a personas, temas y objetos. Y fija la mirada a partir de una curiosidad panorámica, que la convierte en una de las voces más originales, libres y retadoras hoy en día. Los lectores agradecemos el reto". Félix de Bedout La crítica ha dicho de Somos luces abismales "Una quisiera susurrar ciertas frases para sentir el ritmo subterráneo que marca el encuentro entre las palabras, la memoria y la imaginación, y que hace que la lectura de los textos de Carolina Sanín atraviese tanto la contemplación como la fábula". Gabriela Alemán "Uno no lee a Carolina Sanín. Uno se va con ella a ver, a pensar, a vivir". William Ospina "La originalidad de su indagación y la casi inconcebible belleza de su español hacen de Sanín una de las grandes escritoras de nuestro tiempo". Marianne Ponsford "En este libro se revela como una escritora cuya forma de lucidez es la poesía. Cada palabra es un placer". Alma Guillermoprieto "Cualquier discusión sobre la calidad de la prosa actual en español debería comenzar por Somos luces abismales. […] Sanín recupera y renueva la idea clásica del ensayo". Edmundo Paz Soldán
Pascal and Theology
by Jan MielOriginally published in 1970. The question of man's freedom to exercise his will—as active an issue among twentieth-century philosophers and theologians as it was in the Jesuit and Jansenist camps known to Pascal—is basic to this study. Pascal's theological thinking, which Professor Miel demonstrates to be the source of unity and coherence in virtually all phases of his thought, is preoccupied by a concern for man's limitations. In his analysis of Pascal's theology, Miel is concerned not only with characterizing Pascal's theological position but also with evaluating it in terms of the history of the church. In a concise and lucid review of the Christian doctrine of grace from the pre-Augustinians through the Renaissance, the author identifies the intellectual-theological atmosphere that created the need for Pascal's strong defense of Augustinian theology. Miel considers Pascal's Écrits sur la grâce, Lettres provincials, and Pensées as well as shorter compositions and correspondence. He establishes the content of Pascal's vision of grace and free will, noting both its originality and its sense of history. Most importantly, he asserts that Pascal's affirmation of Jansenism predated his association with Port Royal and, indeed, was basic to all his adult thought and work. The author finds in the writings of Pascal a style that anticipates twentieth-century theology, a sophistication that belies charges of Pascal's theological naïveté, and a concern to uphold rather than to undermine doctrinal traditions of the church.
Pascal the Philosopher
by Graeme HunterBlaise Pascal has always been appreciated as a literary giant and a religious guide, but has received only grudging recognition as a philosopher: philosophers have mistaken Pascal's harsh criticism of their discipline as a rejection of it. But according to Graeme Hunter, Pascal's critics have simply failed to grasp his lean, but powerful conception of philosophy. This accessibly written book provides the first introduction to Pascal's philosophy as an organic whole.Hunter argues that Pascal's aim is not merely to humble philosophy, but to save it from a kind of failure to which it is prone. He lays out Pascal's development of a more promising and fruitful path for philosophical inquiry, one that responded to the scientific, religious, and political upheaval of his time. Finally, Hunter illuminates Pascal's significance for contemporary readers, allowing him to emerge as the rare philosopher who is spiritual, literary, and rigorous all at once - both a brilliant controversialist and a thinker of substance.
Paseos nocturnos (Serie Great Ideas #Volumen 25)
by Charles DickensIdeas que han cambiado el mundo. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Charles Dickens describe en Paseos nocturnos la época en la que, en busca de una cura para el insomnio, se dedicó a caminar por Londres a altas horas de la madrugada, descubriendo los problemas de indigencia, alcoholismo y vicio que escondían sus calles. Esta recopilación de ensayos muestra a Dickens como uno de los grandes visionarios de la ciudad, en toda su diversidad y crueldad. Comentarios sobre la colección Great Ideas:«De veras que la edición es primorosa y pocas veces contenido y continente pueden encontrarse mejor ensamblados y unidos. ¡Qué portadas! Para enmarcar. [...] Ante las Great Ideas, solo cabe quitarse el sombrero. ¡Chapeau!»ABC «Taurus propone un doble envite con este lanzamiento. Por un lado aumenta su compromiso con el ensayo; por otro, recupera el gusto por la estética. A los volúmenes se les ha proporcionado una portada delicada y cuidada (copian el original británico) que invita a la lectura.»La Razón «Un fenómeno editorial.»The Guardian «Aparte de los contenidos, en general muy bien elegidos, son tan bonitos que si los ven seguro que cae alguno.»El País «Ideas revolucionarias, crónicas de exploraciones, pensamientos radicales? vuelven a la vida en estas cuidadísimas ediciones, muy atractivas para nuevos lectores.»Mujer Hoy «Grandes ideas bien envueltas. De Cicerón a Darwin, esta colección entra por los ojos.»Rolling Stone «Original y bella iniciativa la emprendida por Taurus con su colección Great Ideas.»Cambio 16 «Hay libros inmortales, libros únicos que contienen pensamientos y reflexiones capaces de cambiar el mundo, tesoros en miniatura reagrupados en la colección Great ideas.»Diario de León
Pasiones pasadas
by Javier MaríasPasiones pasadas fue el primer libro de artículos de Javier Marías, y en él ya se vio que el autor no trata la realidad de manera muy distinta que la ficción. Pasiones pasadas(1991), la primera recopilación de artículos seleccionados por el autor para ser publicados en forma de libro, es la muestra primigenia de una labor que aún no ha abandonado y en la que se mueve como pez en el agua. Aquí, organizados en apartados temáticos, podemos encontrar textos viajeros, en los que Javier Marías nos lleva a sus ciudades -Venecia y Oxford, Barcelona y Madrid-; otros de afinidades y afectos, como aquellos en los que nos habla de personajes y amigos -Benet y Villena, su tío el cineasta Jess Frank y su amigo Aliocha Coll-, pero también escritos sobre las particularidades de la sociedad española y sobre el difícil arte de escribir y no morir en el intento. En todos ellos, fruto según su autor de «la vehemencia o pasión de un instante», encontramos, tras su prosa inconfundible, una mirada que, aun siendo capaz de distanciarse, tiene como objetivo comprometerse, implicarse, opinar. Reseña: «Al recorrer en este libro trabajos de los últimos seis años, se aprecia bien en qué medida una labor como la suya contribuye a elevar, desde la prensa más diversa, la temperatura intelectual del país.»Ignacio Echevarría, El País
Pasolini after Dante: The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation (Legenda)
by Emanuela PattiWhat role did Dante play in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)? His unfinished and fragmented imitation of the Comedia, La Divina Mimesis, is only one outward sign of what was a sustained dialogue with Dante on representation begun in the early 1950s. During this period, the philologists Gianfranco Contini (1912-1990) and Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) played a crucial role in Pasolini’s re-thinking of ‘represented reality’, suggesting Dante as the best literary, authorial and political model for a generation of postwar Italian writers. This emerged first as ‘Dantean realism’ in Pasolini’s prose and poetry, after Contini’s interpretation of Dante and of his plurilingualism, and then as ‘figural realism’ in his cinema, after Auerbach’s concepts of Dante’s figura and ‘mingling of styles’. Following the evolution of Pasolini’s mimetic ideal from these formative influences through to La Divina Mimesis, Emanuela Patti explores Pasolini’s politics of representation in relation to the ‘national-popular’, the ‘questione della lingua’ and the Italian post-war debates on neorealism, while also providing a new interpretation of some of his major literary and cinematic works.