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Author: Richard Garnett
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Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: Richard Garnett
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Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: Francesco Flamini
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Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: Richard Garnett
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Great literatures, like great rivers, seldom derive their origin from a single fountain, but rather ooze from the soil in a multitude of almost imperceptible springs. The literature of Greece may appear an exception, but we know that the broad stream of Homeric song in which we first behold it must have been fed by a number of rills which it has absorbed into itself, and whose original sources lie beyond the range of scrutiny. In no literature is this general maxim better exemplified than the Italian, if, at least, as the economy of this little history demands, we restrict this appellation to its modern period. It might be plausibly contended that the Latin and Italian literatures, like the Roman and Byzantine empires, are, in truth, a single entity, but the convenience of the student precludes a view in support of which much might be adduced by the critic and philologist. Defining Italian literature, therefore, so as to comprise whatsoever is written in any dialect of that "soft bastard Latin" which bears the Italian name, and to exclude all compositions in a language which a Roman would have called Latin, we find none among great literatures whose beginnings are more humble and obscure, or, which at first seems surprising, more recent. The perfection of form which the literature of Italy had attained while all others, save the Provençal, were yet devoid of symmetry and polish, the comparative intelligibility of the diction of "Dante and his circle" at the present day, while the contemporary writers in other tongues require copious glossaries, lead to the tacit and involuntary assumption of a long antecedent period of development and refinement which did not in fact exist. In truth, the earliest literary compositions definable as Italian are scarcely older than the thirteenth century.
Author: Peter Brand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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'There is no doubt that the present splendid volume ... is likely to remain unrivalled for many years to come for width of coverage, richness of detail, and elegance of presentation.' Modern Language Reviews
Author: Francesco Flamini
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Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Author: Richard Garnett
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Author: Rossiter Johnson
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Author: Florence Trail
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Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Author: John Humphreys Whitfield
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007828
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: Ann Caesar
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745628001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present. It probes the work of major authors in their broad cultural context, traces the history of audiences and publishers, explores the shifting relationship between public and private, assesses the impact of significant historical trends and events on creative processes, and establishes the continuities as well as the discontinuities of the Italian literary tradition. A synoptic overview at the beginning of the volume is designed to help the reader get her or his bearings in the detail of the nine chapters which follow. Using an essentially chronological framework, the book is divided into three major cultural time-spans: the long eighteenth century, the decades of national identity formation and the creation of modern', industrial Italy between 1816 and 1900, and the twentieth century with its constant renegotiation of national cultural identity. A final epilogue provides a snapshot of Italian literary culture in the near-present. This is a book which will be readily accessible to students and all those interested in Italian culture, and at the same time is based on the most up-to-date scholarship. New readings of the canonical authors rub shoulders with a refreshing attention to standard and popular writing, gender issues, and the interaction between written and oral forms, producing a history of modern Italian literature which is new in its conception and its scope.
