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Italian Literature & Criticism
This library subject guide provides a starting point for literary research on Italian literature in the UC Berkeley Library.
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Bibliografia delle autrici del Novecento
by
Alessia Scacchi
Florence: Franco Cesati, 2020.
Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature
by
Peter Bondanella et al. (eds.)
2nd ed. London: Cassell, 1996.
Dei poeti italiani
by
Alessandro Zilioli and Franco Arato (ed.)
Rome: Editrice Antenore, 2021.
Dizionario autori italiani contemporanei
4th edition. Milan: G. Miano, 2006.
Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (Dbi)
by
Alberto Maria Ghisalberti (ed.)
Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1960-2022. v.1-100 Also online: https://www.treccani.it/biografico
Dizionario biografico degli scrittori italiani : dizionario compatto
by
Nadia Cannata Salomone
Bologna: Zanichelli, 1997.
*Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana del Novecento
by
Enrico Ghidetti and Giorgio Luti
Rome: Editori riuniti, 1997.
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature
by
Rinaldina Russell
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Futurismo : bibliografia di 500 scrittori italiani
by
M. Domenico Cammarota
Milano: Skira, 2006.
Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present: Revising the Canon
by
Maria Ornella Marotti
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
*The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
by
Peter Hainsworth and David Robey (eds.)
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Poeti e scrittori del pieno e del tardo rinascimento
by
Benedetto Croce
Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2022. v.1-3.
Italian Language Dictionaries
DESLI : dizionario etimologico-semantico della lingua italiana : come nascono le parole
by
Mario Alinei and Francesco Benozzo
Bologna: Pendragon, 2015.
Dizionario Bompiani delle opere e dei personaggi di tutti i tempi e di tutte le letterature
Milan: Bompiani, 1983-1984. v.1-12.
Dizionario Motta della letteratura contemporanea
Milan: F. Motta, 1982. v.1-4.
Il Grande dizionario Garzanti della lingua italiana [online]
Grande dizionario italiano dell'uso
by
Tullio de Mauro
Turin: UTET, 1999-2003. v.1-7.
Lessico critico petrarchesco
by
Luca Marcozzi and Romana Brovia (eds.)
Rome: Carocci, 2016.
Lessico etimologico italiano: LEI
by
Max Pfister (ed.)
Lessico etimologico italiano : LEI / Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1979- UCB print holdings end with
v.19 (D1-8, da-detentor) but work is available online.
Lessico universale italiano
by
Umberto Bosco (ed.)
Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1968-. v.1-24
Nòvo dizionàrio universale della lingua italiana
by
Policarpo Petrocchi
Milano: Fratèlli Trèves, 1921. v.1-2. NRLF + online
Nuovo dizionario affettivo della lingua italiana
by
Matteo Bianchi and Girogio Vasta (eds.)
New edition. Rome: Fandango, 2019.
Per un dizionario critico della letteratura italiana contemporanea : 100 voci
by
Romano Luperini and Emanuele Zinato
Rome: Carocci, 2020.
Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca
4th edition. Venice: Appresso Lorenzo Basegio, 1729. v.1-2 in Bancroft Reference + online
Lo Zingarelli 2019 : Vocabolario della lingua italiana
by
Nicola Zingarelli et al. (eds.)
12th edition. Bolonga: Zanichelli, 2018.
Manuals & Guides to Literary Theory and Criticism
"Dentro a la selva antica" : letture critiche da Dante al Novecento
by
Dino Manca
Sassari: EDES, 2019.
Come sono fatti questi romanzi? : le forme della narrativa italiana di oggi
by
Maurizio Dardano
Florence: Franco Cesati, 2021.
Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism: Italy and the United States
by
Gregory L. Lucente
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
by
J.A. Cuddon
5th edition. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley Press, 2013.
A Dictionary of Postmodernism
by
John Hartley and Niall Lucy (eds.) et al.
West Sussex, England: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms
by
Irene Rima Makaryk
Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
Filologia dantesca : un'introduzione
by
Marco Grimaldi
Rome: Carocci, 2021.
Le filologie della letteratura italiana : modelli, esperienze, prospettive
by
Marco Berisso (ed.)
Florence: SFLI, 2021.
Le forme brevi della narrativa
by
Elisabetta Menetti
Rome: Carocci, 2019.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
by
Michael Groden (ed.) et al.
2nd edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Laboratorio di Nuova Ricerca: Investigating Gender, Translation & Culture in Italian Studies
by
Monica Boria and Linda Risso
Leicester: Troubador, 2007.
Letteratura e psicoanalisi in Italia
by
Giancarlo Alfano and Stefano Carrai (eds.)
Rome: Carocci, 2019.
Literary imitation in the Italian Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo
by
Martin L. McLaughlin
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Literary Theory: An Introduction
by
Terry Eagleton
2nd and anniversary edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Il modernismo italiano
by
Massimiliano Tortora
Rome: Carocci, 2018.
The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
by
Simon Malpas and Paul Wake (eds.)
2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013.
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
by
English Association (ed.)
Oxford: Blackwell, 1994-.
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