We are launching a new feature by publishing here a selection of new titles that arrived during the summer, i.e. between June and September 2025. This selection, together with all the new acquisitions from this period, is available as usual on Minerva.
- English Studies
From contemporary poetry to gender studies, spatial theories and the hybrid language of written communication, new arrivals in the field of English studies offer a rich and interdisciplinary overview. Noteworthy titles include Jean Valentine's collection Door in the Mountain, Richard Ambrosini's La poesia inglese, and Robert T. Tally Jr.'s Spazialità , which explores the concept of space in literature. The selection is completed by Gender Models, Alternative Communities and Women's Utopianism, a study of 17th-century utopian writers, and Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing, a collective essay dedicated to mixed language in writing.
- French Studies
New arrivals in French studies intertwine social, linguistic and cultural reflection. The works of Didier Eribon — Une morale du minoritaire, Sociobiographie and La société comme verdict — offer critical perspectives on the relationship between identity, class and personal memory, confirming the centrality of his thinking in contemporary debate. On the linguistic side, Julie Neveux's Je parle comme je suis investigates the changes in the French language in the age of hypercommunication, while the works of Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus (Va voir dans le dico si j'y suis! and En finir avec les idées fausses sur la langue française) show, with an approach that is as rigorous as it is informative, how dictionaries and representations of language reflect society and its prejudices.
- German Studies
The Nordic world between myth, medieval literature and contemporary culture is at the centre of some of the most evocative new additions. From the legendary origins of trolls to their use in contemporary digital iconography, Trolls: An Unnatural History and Trolle: Ihre Geschichte von der nordischen Mythologie bis zum Internet take the reader on a journey through centuries of fantasy. Sagas of Imagination, a collection of Icelandic sagas in English translation, and Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters in Thüringen, a study of the medieval heritage in German literature, offer new resources for exploring pre-modern Germanic culture.
Iberian Studies
A rich selection of poetic texts and literary essays expands the collection dedicated to Portuguese and Brazilian literature. Of particular note are the critical editions of Fernando Pessoa's poetry, covering his entire output (1902–1935), including the collection Poemas de Ricardo Reis. There is no shortage of titles aimed at a cultured and passionate audience, such as Convite à navegação, nor significant works of contemporary fiction such as As mulheres de Tijucopapo by Marilene Felinto, a powerful novel about female resistance in Brazil in the 1970s.
- Slavic Studies
New acquisitions range from literary criticism to historical memory and linguistics. Popoli ed eroi by Carmen Dell'Aversano explores the boundaries of identity and philosophical reflections in the work of Viktor Pelevin, while the anthology Ivan Turgenev: lettere e musica sheds new light on the relationship between writing and music. Alongside these studies, Memorie di Carlo Fredduzzi in I ragazzi di Leningrado recounts the experience of an Italian student in the USSR, and Il lessico russo del Novecento by Erica Pinelli traces the evolution of Russian vocabulary through the great transformations of the short century.
