| Description |
xix, 243 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Italian fiction -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017
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Ciccarelli, Andrea.
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| ISBN |
0521660181 |
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0521669626 paperback |
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