Ecocritical approaches to Italian culture and literature : the denatured wild / edited by Pasquale Verdicchio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Verdicchio, Pasquale, editor.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice.

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages).

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

Summary:

"By recognizing the groundbreaking work of many non-Italian ecocritics, and linking to the homegrown contributions of Serenella Lovino, Marco Armerio, and Giovanna Ricoveri, the authors of Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild, challenge the narrowly defined conventions of Italian Studies and illuminates the complexities of an Italian ecocriticism that reveals a rich environmentally engaged literary and cultural tradition" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Ch. 1. The wisdom of the hand and the memory of a mediterranean more than human humanism / Massimo Lollini

Ch. 2. The hybrid "biocitizen" in Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo or The seasons in the city / Adele Sanna

Ch. 3. Italian woods between environmentalism and children's literature in Dino Buzzati's Il segreto del bosco vecchio / Viola Ardeni

Ch. 4. The Cervi family: a peasant story / Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan

Ch. 5. A house in flames: environmental ethics in the writing of Sebastiano Vassalli / Meriel Tulante

Ch. 6. Il bosco degli urogalli. A lieu de mémoir / Stefania Nedderman

Ch. 7. The environmental aesthetics of Sabina Guzzanti's Le ragione dell'aragosta / Marguerite Ealler

Ch. 8. Toxic disorder and civic possibility: viewing the land of fires from the Phlegraean fields / Pasquale Verdicchio.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 2, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4985-1888-5