Approaches to teaching the works of Primo Levi / edited by Nicholas Patruno and Roberta Ricci.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patruno, Nicholas, editor.

Ricci, Roberta, editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 133.

Approaches to teaching world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Levi, Primo.

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987--Study and teaching.

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987.

Study skills.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 175 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, [2014]

Contents:

Part One: Materials. Editions. Editions in Italian ; Anthologies ; Translations

The instructor's library. Reference works ; Historical and literary studies

Aids to teaching. Films and music ; Internet resources

Part Two: Approaches. Introduction

Testimony, Autobiography, and the Holocaust. Levi and the question of style: the challenge of teaching the Holocaust / Nancy Harrowitz ; "What would I have done?": teaching The drowned and the saved to confront moral ambiguity / Jonathan Druker ; Poetry and testimony in Levi / Massimao Lollini ; Levi's "personaggi ambigeni" and the negotiation of autobiography and memory / Nicholas Patruno ; The complexity of Levi: approaching Levi through his interviews, articles, and short essays / Massimo Giuliani

Language, Language Instruction, and Translation. At loggerheads with Lager jargon: the untranslatable in Levi / Pietro Frassica ; Teaching Levi in an advanced language course / Letizia Modena ; Translation matters: Levi, translation, and Holocaust testimony / Lina Insana

Teaching Individual Works. $t Adventures in interdisciplinarity: teaching The periodic table / Millicent Marcus ; The humanity of the elements: an interpretation of Levi's The periodic table / Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen ; The writing of history in Levi's and Francesco Rosi's La tregua / Gaetana Marrone ; If not now, when?: a novel of reconciliation and becoming / Risa Sodi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.

ISBN:

9781603291477

1603291474

9781603291484

1603291482

OCLC:

858126228