{"product_id":"kafkas-italian-progeny-hardback-9781487506308","title":"Kafka's Italian Progeny (Hardback) 9781487506308","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKafka's Italian Progeny\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSaskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487506308\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ziolkowski\u0026amp;#x2019;s innovative research fills a gap in Italian comparative literature and explores the Kafkian tradition in Italy, one that has not been examined up until today.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Andrea Sartori (\u003cem\u003eAnnali d\u0026amp;#x2019;italianistica\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, \u003ci\u003eKafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Italian Progeny\u003c\/i\u003e takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to reconsider its dimensions and influencers. Exploring a distinct but unexamined Kafkan tradition in modern Italian literature, it brings Italian literary works into larger debates and reorients the critical view of the Italian literary landscape. The book calls attention to the way Kafkan themes, narrative strategies, and formal experimentation appear in a range of Italian authors. Offering new perspectives on familiar figures, such as Italo Calvino, Italo Svevo, and Elena Ferrante, it also sheds light on some lesser-known authors, including Tommaso Landolfi, Paola Capriolo, and Lalla Romano.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing diverse approaches to explore thematic, generic, historical, and cultural connections between Kafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s works and those of Italian authors, the author argues for a new view of Italian literature that includes talking animals, parental bonds, modernist realism, literary detective novels, and lyrical microfiction. Whereas Kafka has been mobilized in discourses on minor and world literature, \u003ci\u003eKafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Italian Progeny\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the particular nature of the Italian reception of Kafka to reveal the richness and variety of modern Italian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKafka, World Literature, and the Italian Literary Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Place of Italian Literature in World Literature Debates\u003cbr\u003eKafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Italian Reception: An Overview\u003cbr\u003eMorante and Buzzati: Two Cases of Kafka Reception \u003cbr\u003eKafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Italian Progeny: An Overview \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Amerika in Italy: Kafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Realism, Pavese, and Calvino\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Amerika in Italy\u003cbr\u003eThe Italian View of Kafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Realism\u003cbr\u003eCalvino\u0026amp;#x2019;s Realist Kafka \u003cbr\u003eAmerika and The Path to the Spiders\u0026amp;#x2019; Nests: Finding and Losing the Way, All Over Again \u003cbr\u003eThe Americas of Kafka and Pavese\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Dreams of Short Fiction after Kafka: Lalla Romano, Giorgio Manganelli, and Antonio Tabucchi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLyrical, Short Kafka \u003cbr\u003eExperimenting with Short, Short Works after Kafka \u003cbr\u003eThe Transformations of Romano, Manganelli, and Tabucchi  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Processi without End: The Mysteries of Dino Buzzati and Paola Capriolo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKafka, Detective Fiction, and Italy\u003cbr\u003eThe Structures of Suspense: Questions, Identity, and Home\u003cbr\u003ePrisons of Analysis and the Pull of Imagination\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Kafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Parental Bonds: The Family as Institution in Italian Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Familial Institution in Kafka and Modern Italian Literature \u003cbr\u003eSvevo\u0026amp;#x2019;s A Life and Ferrante\u0026amp;#x2019;s Troubling Love: Societal Stress and the Bonds of Family\u003cbr\u003eLeaving Parental Bonds in Bontempelli\u0026amp;#x2019;s The Son of Two Mothers and Morante\u0026amp;#x2019;s Arturo\u0026amp;#x2019;s Island\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Human-Animal Boundary, Italian Style: Kafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Red Peter in Conversation with Svevo\u0026amp;#x2019;s Argo, Morante\u0026amp;#x2019;s Bella, and Landolfi\u0026amp;#x2019;s Tombo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eItalian Literature, Kafka, and Animal Studies\u003cbr\u003eCommunication across Species: The Monologues of Kafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Red Peter and Svevo\u0026amp;#x2019;s Argo \u003cbr\u003eInterspecial Communication: Landolfi\u0026amp;#x2019;s Châli and Tombo, Morante\u0026amp;#x2019;s Belli and Immacolatella\u003cbr\u003eThe Language of Animals and Dialects\u003cbr\u003eAnimal Bodies and Christian Spirit in Morante, Landolfi, and Buzzati\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eCalvino\u0026amp;#x2019;s Kafka and Kafka\u0026amp;#x2019;s Italy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595480559896,"sku":"9781487506308","price":46.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/kafkas-italian-progeny-hardback-9781487506308","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}