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Essays in Italian literature and history in honour of Doug Thompson / George Talbot and Pamela Williams, editors.
LIBRA PQ4004.T54 E84 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thompson, Doug.
- Italian literature--History and criticism.
- Italian literature.
- Literature and history.
- Italy--History.
- Italy.
- History.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Lorenzo de' Medici, Piombino, and Naples: cultural politics from the Raccolte Aragonesi to the Comento / Judith Bryce 11
- Michelangelo: 'Non ha l'ottimo artista'
- enigma variations on 'morte' / Corinna Salvadori 28
- The silver goddess: the image of the Moon in Leopardi / Emanuela Cervato 38
- Leopardi's materialism and the animal world / Pamela Williams 50
- The art of comedy: theatrical features and devices in Collodi's Pinocchio and their 'retroscena' / Ann Lawson Lucas 66
- Risorgimento mythmaking in George Eliot's Romola / Andrew Thompson 80
- Women, education, and nationality in Svevo's Trieste / Donatella de Ferra 89
- Pirandello for the new Italy: Orazio Costa's productions of Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore / Jennifer Lorch 104
- Memories of occupations: Perugia 1943-45 / Roger Absalom 117
- 'A sufficienza, ma senza letizia': the performance of the Fascist police in the reports of the Public Security inspectors / Jonathan Dunnage 125
- Fontamara and Cristo si e fermato a Eboli: cases of intertextuality / Brian Moloney 133
- The comings and goings of Peppino Goriano / Judy Rawson 146
- Cara's 'creative' writing: the fiction of originality in Capriolo's Il doppio regno / Gillian Ania 156
- Humanity rediscovered: portraying the plight of the survivor in Rosi's film La Tregua / Judith Kelly 172
- The theatre of Natalia Ginzburg between Chekhov and the theatre of the Absurd / Simona Rizzardi 182
- Roberto Benigni's cinema: comedy, tragedy, and fairy tale / Annalisa Sandrelli 195
- 'Le parole rombanti e le cose vili del mondo': Sebastiano Vassalli and the new historical novel in Italy / George Talbot 216.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Doug Thompson: bibliography": pages 233-235.
- Includes filmography: page 215.
- ISBN:
- 1851826300
- OCLC:
- 47118826
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