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The Cambridge companion to the Italian novel / / edited by Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 |
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1-139-81612-8 |
0-511-99974-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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Italian fiction - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The belated development of a theory of the novel in Italian literary culture / Remo Cesarini and Pierluigi Pellini -- The forms of long prose fiction in late medieval and early modern Italian literature / Albert N. Mancini -- Alessandro Manzoni and developments in the historical novel / Olga Ragusa -- Literary realism in Italy: Verga, Capuana, and verismo / Giovanni Carsaniga -- Popular fiction between Italian unification and World War I / Nicolas J. Perella -- The foundations of Italian modernism: Pirandello, Svevo, Gadda / Robert Dombroski -- Neorealist narrative: experience and experiment / Lucia Re -- Memory and testimony in Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani / JoAnn Cannon -- The Italian novel in search of identity: history versus reality -- Lampedusa and Pasolini / Manuela Bertone -- Feminist writing in the twentieth century / Sharon Wood -- Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco: postmodern masters / Peter Bondanella -- Literary cineastes: the Italian novel and the cinema / Rolando Caputo -- Frontier, exile, and migration in the contemporary Italian novel / Andrea Ciccarelli -- The new Italian novel / Rocco Capozzi. |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished |
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scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. This is a unique examination of the Italian Novel, and will prove invaluable to students and specialists alike. Readers will gain a keen sense of the vitality of the Italian novel throughout its history and a clear picture of the debates and criticism that have surrounded its development. |
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