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Fire within : desire in modern and contemporary italian literature / edited by Elena Borelli ; contributors Jessica Greenfield [and fifteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian literature--History and criticism.
- Italian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Desire for love, desire for knowledge, desire to possess, desire to desire and to be desired: our life is shaped by what we want and by our efforts to achieve it. Hailed by philosophers and psychoanalysts as the core of human identity, desire informs not only our actions, but also our dreams and hopes and their sublimation into art and literature. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern and contemporary Italian literature, by analysing some of the most interestin...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART IV; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART V; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 23, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5940-0
- OCLC:
- 877039412
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