Postmodern ethics : Sciascia's and Tabucchi's re-appropriation of committed writing 1975-2005 / by Elizabeth Wren-Owens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wren-Owens, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Italian fiction.

Ethics in literature.

Postmodernism.

Sciascia, Leonardo--Criticism and interpretation.

Sciascia, Leonardo.

Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-2012--Criticism and interpretation.

Tabucchi, Antonio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Postmodern Ethics offers a new perspective on debates surrounding the role of the intellectual in Italian society, and provides an original reading of two important Italian contemporary writers, Leonardo Sciascia and Antonio Tabucchi. It examines the ways in which the two writers use literature to engage with their socio-political environment in a climate informed by the doubts and scepticism of postmodernism, after traditional forms of impegno had been abandoned. Postmodern Ethics explores w...

Contents:

pt. I. Text and society : text in society

pt. II. Engagement through spatial respresentations

pt. III. The challenge of communication

pt. IV. The challenges of intertextuality and self-reflexivity

pt. V. Conclusions.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Warwick, 2005) presented under the title: The phoenix speaks: the reclamation of socio-political engagement in the works of Leonardo Sciascia and Antonio Tabucchi, 1975-2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-204) and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-1077-0

OCLC:

827209021