{"product_id":"modern-italian-literature-hardback-9780745627991","title":"Modern Italian Literature (Hardback) 9780745627991","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModern Italian Literature\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\"\u003eAnn Hallamore Caesar (Author), Michael Caesar (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745627991, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 October 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.481 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“An intelligent and engaging blend of cultural and literary history, this volume provides a highly readable overview of modern Italian literature, which ranges from the eighteenth century to today. A most valuable study for both experts and students.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca West, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A brilliant book that moves with agility through the centuries, authors, and historical events. It is a cultural and literary guide that any student of Italian should rely on.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraziella Parati, \u003ci\u003eDartmouth College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This is a superb, stimulating and lucid work of synthesis, tracing the evolution of Italian literature from the late seventeenth century to the present day. As well as revisiting major figures and others lost in the archive, the book uses the literary field to explore a fascinating series of subterranean patterns in Italy’s modern cultural history.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Gordon, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Cambridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present. It probes the work of major authors in their broad cultural context, traces the history of audiences and publishers, explores the shifting relationship between public and private, assesses the impact of significant historical trends and events on creative processes, and establishes the continuities as well as the discontinuities of the Italian literary tradition. \u003cp\u003eA synoptic overview at the beginning of the volume is designed to help the reader get her or his bearings in the detail of the nine chapters which follow. Using an essentially chronological framework, the book is divided into three major cultural time-spans: the long eighteenth century, the decades of national identity formation and the creation of modern', industrial Italy between 1816 and 1900, and the twentieth century with its constant renegotiation of national cultural identity. A final epilogue provides a snapshot of Italian literary culture in the near-present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a book which will be readily accessible to students and all those interested in Italian culture, and at the same time is based on the most up-to-date scholarship. New readings of the canonical authors rub shoulders with a refreshing attention to standard and popular writing, gender issues, and the interaction between written and oral forms, producing a history of modern Italian literature which is new in its conception and its scope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION: An Overview of Modern Italian Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: The Long Eighteenth Century (1690-1815)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One: Cross-currents of modernity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1. This is Arcadia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2. New states, new thinkers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two: Enlightenment and the public arena\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1. Journalism, theatre and the book trade in Venice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2. Enlightenment and reform from Naples to Milan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three: Literature and revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1. Italy and France\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2. Alfieri: life and drama\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3. Foscolo: between classicism and romanticism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: Literature and Unification (1816-1900)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four: Romantic Italy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1. Milan 1816\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2. Florence 1827\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3. Leopardi: the challenge of poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Five: Inventing the nation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1. Manzoni: the responsibility of the writer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2. History and fiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3. Literature and the people\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4. Memory, monuments and the national past\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Six: Making the nation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1. The literary culture of Unificaton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2. The artist as observer: verismo and the social\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3. Looking in: domesticity and the literary market\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: From modernism to the market (1900 to the present)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Seven: Modernism and the crisis of the literary subject\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. 1. The search for identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2. War, technology and the arts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3. Narratives of selfhood: the subjective turn in fiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eight: Literature, Fascism and Anti-Fascism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1. Writing and the regime\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2. The social condition of intellectuals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3. Testing the limits of the novel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4. Resistance, Reconstruction and Neo-realism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Nine: From the avant-garde to the market-place\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1. The last avant-garde?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2. The widening of culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3. A minimalist postmodernism: the poetics of attention\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4. 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