John Cabot University Press seeks to provide a bridge between European and American culture by bringing to the attention of the English-speaking academic world important contributions to debates, activities, and research that have recently been taking place in Italy. It also publishes works originating on both sides of the Atlantic that, as bridges themselves, examine relationships between the culture of English-speaking countries and the culture of ancient Rome and Italy.
Books are published in the United States by the
University of Delaware Press.
For further information, contact
bcocciolillo@johncabot.edu.
Publications by John Cabot University Press
2011
InVerse Italian Poets in Translation 2008-2009
Edited by
Brunella Antomarini
Berenice Cocciolillo
Rosa Filardi
The anthology collects the works of renowned poets who already belong to the history of Italian poetry, together with younger and less known poets whom we believe are going to leave a mark on contemporary Italian poetry. The work of two well-known North American poets, Canadian Barry Callaghan and American Susan Stewart, is also featured in the anthology. They were special guests—with Valerio Magrelli and Mariangela Gualtieri - of two editions of the InVerse festival entitled InVerse-Two Poets in Mutual Translation. A brief selection of women futurist writers taken from Cecilia Bello Micciacchi’s seminal book
Spirale di dolcezza + Serpe di fascino – antologia di scrittrici futuriste further enriches the anthology.
Featured poets: Benedetta, Alessandra Berardi, Tomaso Binga, Silvia Bre, Nanni Cagnone, Maria Grazia, Calandrone, Barry Callaghan, Anna Cascella Luciani, Ottavio Fatica, Gabriele Frasca, Mariangela Gualtieri, Jolanda Insana, Paola Loreto, Valerio Magrelli, Giulio Marzaioli, Elisa Pezzani, Andrea Raos, Marilena Renda, Vito Riviello, Rosa Ros, Luigi Socci, Susan Stewart, and Valentino Zeichen.
A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court
Author: Craig Smith
A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice will be profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions they have taken in significant Supreme Court decisions. The object of these chapters is to provide a rhetorical frame that each of these justices would find appealing regarding First Amendment case law. Craig Smith is director of the Center for First Amendment Studies and professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
2011 ISBN: 978-1611493610
2010
Victorian Disharmonies:
A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction
Author: Francesco Marroni
Focusing on the notion of transition as a destablizing factor of nineteenth-century society, this book explores from a new critical perspective the canon of Victorian literature by regarding the paradigm of disharmony as an interpretative key to the narrative production of such authors as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing and Thomas Hardy.
ISBN: 978-0-87413-090-4
2009
Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future: Critical Theory
Edited by S.Giacchetti Ludovisi.
The book collects essays presented at the international conference on Critical Theoy, held at John CAbot University on May 22, 2008. The articles in this book stress the relevance to the present of the early stages of Critical Theory. On the one hand they aim at the recognition of the fundamental role played by such authors as Benjamin, Bloch and Lukacs in the shaping of Critical Theory. On the other hand they reaffirm the fundamental importance of the works of the first philosophers of the Frankfurt School (and in particular Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse) against the sometimes hasty consideration of their work as outdated. Each article focuses on specific social, political and aesthetic issues.
Unscathed by Fire: A Young Girl and the Italian Armistice of September 8, 1943, by
Fiorenza Di Franco. Translated from the Italian by Berenice Cocciolillo.
Told through the astonished eyes of a young girl, this book narrates the vicissitudes that JCU professor Fiorenza Di Franco and her family endured against the backdrop of Hungary, devastated by the tragic events of World War II. The original title of the book,
Una ragazzina e l'armistizio dell'8 settembre 1943, refers to a critical moment during the war, when Italy signed an armistice with the Allied powers, ending the alliance with Germany. Fiorenza’s father, an Italian diplomat stationed in Hungary, refused to adhere to the Fascist Italian Social Republic and was arrested by the Gestapo. He was deported to Mauthausen, where he was subject to the horrors of the Shoah with Jews and political prisoners like himself. In the meantime Fiorenza, her brother, and her Hungarian Jewish mother lived through a series of concentration camps, escapes, and periods of time in hiding.
“It has been said countless times that we need to educate young people so that the tragedy of the Holocaust can never happen again. Yet, as a university professor, I am amazed at how little students know about contemporary history. As a direct witness to the tragic events of World War II, I am offering my story in the hopes of making a piece of history more accessible.”
2008
InVerse Italian Poets in Translation 2007
Edited by
Brunella Antomarini
Berenice Cocciolillo
Rosa Filardi
The latest volume of the anthology collects the poems that were read during the third edition of the
InVerse Poetry Festival in Spring 2007. If the role of poets today can still be that of narrating their time, each with her or his own language and mode and individual linguistic and expressive technique, then, in the words of our honored and affectionate guest Nanni Balestrini, poetry is still "the savage cry that tears out strips of moldy brain." It is "...an interminable Apocalypse. Or else it is not."
Featured poets: Giovanni Raboni, Stefano Dal Bianco, Luigia Sorrentino, Milo De Angelis, Patrizia Valduga, Nanni Balestrini, Rosaria Lo Russo, Lorenzo Carlucci, Anna Laura Longo, Mia Lecomte
2007
InVerse Italian Poets in Translation 2006
Edited by
Brunella Antomarini
Berenice Cocciolillo
Rosa Filardi
Alessandra Grego
The anthology collects all the poems read during the two evenings of
InVerse 2006 with facing translation. It is also enriched by artist Andrea Malizia’s beautiful
Portraits of Poets. Malizia’s photos are unusual and in a way “estranging” for their focus on details of bodies rather than on full representations. By focusing on details, he opens up new perspectives in the relationship between poets and poetry. The new perspectives provided by these poems and images may or may not coincide with depictions of reality, but are undoubtedly places where that reality is experienced in unique and fascinating ways.
Featured poets: Edoardo Albinati, Cristina Annino, Adelaide Basile, Marco Caporali, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Annamaria Ferramosca, Marco Giovenale, Vincenzo Ostuni, Daniele Pieroni, Lidia Riviello, Massimo Sannelli, Gian Mario Villalta.
2006
InVerse Italian Poets in Translation 2005
Edited by
Brunella Antomarini
Berenice Cocciolillo
Rosa Filardi
Alessandra Grego
This bilingual anthology is the final outcome of a project that began as a reading of contemporary Italian poets in the spring of 2005. At the root of the project was the desire to introduce English speakers to modern Italian poetry, since there are so many interesting authors who are as yet quite unknown internationally. So organizers/editors invited the poets themselves to read their work in Italian, and read the translations of the poems in English. Thus was
In Verse born.
Featured poets: Daniela Attanasio, Corrada Biazzo Curry, Fabio Ciriachi, Paola Febbraro, Michele Ferrara degli Uberti, Piera Mattei, Chris Neenan, Tommaso Ottonieri, Tristano di Robilant, Davide Rondoni