Books written by Alessandro Portelli
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Romanzi nel tempo: Come la letteratura racconta la storia
Raccontare la storia attraverso i romanzi riserva molte sorprese.
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The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History
By recovering the value of the story-telling experience, Portelli’s work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.
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L'ordine è già stato eseguito: Roma, le Fosse Ardeatine, la memoria
Guerra , modernità , violenza politica ( 1914-1918 ) Max Weber Scritti politici Bennett A. Weinberg - Bonnie K. Bealer Caffeina . Storia , cultura e scienza della sostanza più famosa del mondo Heinrich August Winkler La Repubblica di ...
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They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History
This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than ...
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The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, Democracy, and American Literature
Alfred Kazin , On Native Grounds : An Interpietation of Modern American Prose Literature ( 1942 ; reprint , New York ... ed . , The Columbia Literary History of the United States ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1988 ) , pp .
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Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History
By exploring the motley traditions that shaped Dylan’s work, this book casts the distinctiveness and depth of his songwriting in a new light.
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Bruce Springsteen’s America: A Dream Deferred
Guterman, Runaway American Dream, chapter 5, IІn Which І Almost Kill Max Weinberg"; Masur, Runaway Dream, p. 70. 291 Cullen, Born in the U.S.A., p. 32; Larry David Smith, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American Song, p.
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They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History
You know, have tux will travel kind of thing” (Charlotte Nolan). Yet a woman interviewed by Shaunna Scott told her: “My status as a single woman, with no children, contributed to my subordinate, dependent position.
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The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue
History, we are often taught, is driven by vast social, political, and economic forces. But each political event, each war, each clash in the streets or at the picket lines,...
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Biography of an Industrial Town: Terni, Italy, 1831–2014
A pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of ...
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The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome
The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the ...