Author: Stefano Evangelista
Publisher: Peter Lang UK
ISBN: 9783034322607
Category : Decadence (Literary movement)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume explores the themes of degeneration and regeneration in fin-de-siècle Italian culture. Some contributions reflect on the poetics of decadence, while others focus on significant figures of the period and their literary, critical and artistic work, providing analysis from both national and comparative perspectives.
The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-siècle Italy
Author: Stefano Evangelista
Publisher: Peter Lang UK
ISBN: 9783034322607
Category : Decadence (Literary movement)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume explores the themes of degeneration and regeneration in fin-de-siècle Italian culture. Some contributions reflect on the poetics of decadence, while others focus on significant figures of the period and their literary, critical and artistic work, providing analysis from both national and comparative perspectives.
Publisher: Peter Lang UK
ISBN: 9783034322607
Category : Decadence (Literary movement)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume explores the themes of degeneration and regeneration in fin-de-siècle Italian culture. Some contributions reflect on the poetics of decadence, while others focus on significant figures of the period and their literary, critical and artistic work, providing analysis from both national and comparative perspectives.
Landscapes of Decadence
Author: Alex Murray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316764036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de-siècle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316764036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de-siècle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.
The Oxford Handbook of Decadence
Author: Jane Desmarais
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190066954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190066954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
The Decadent Poetry of the Eighteen-nineties
Author: John Murchison Munro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Disguising Disease in Italian Political and Visual Culture
Author: Sharon Hecker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040121861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government’s initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in Italy from Unification to the present. The book explores how governments, public opinion, social entities and cultural production have avoided or sublimated contagion during cholera, typhoid, syphilis, malaria, HIV and COVID-19 to impose narratives of the nation’s healthy body in Italy and its colonies. Examples range from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Capri that masked as a luxury hotel and hideaway for queer couples to an obscure but talented professor who found a new cure for syphilis; from denial of disease in governmental actions to sublimated representations in Italian art, literature and films such as Luchino Visconti’s cinematic adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice to a sociological study of the need to include fragile figures based on the lessons of COVID-19. Intended for scholars, students and general readers interested in the history of medicine, political and cultural history, and Italian studies, this volume shows how contagious diseases clash with the official narrative of emerging modernized urban settings and challenge the desire for political and economic stability.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040121861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government’s initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in Italy from Unification to the present. The book explores how governments, public opinion, social entities and cultural production have avoided or sublimated contagion during cholera, typhoid, syphilis, malaria, HIV and COVID-19 to impose narratives of the nation’s healthy body in Italy and its colonies. Examples range from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Capri that masked as a luxury hotel and hideaway for queer couples to an obscure but talented professor who found a new cure for syphilis; from denial of disease in governmental actions to sublimated representations in Italian art, literature and films such as Luchino Visconti’s cinematic adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice to a sociological study of the need to include fragile figures based on the lessons of COVID-19. Intended for scholars, students and general readers interested in the history of medicine, political and cultural history, and Italian studies, this volume shows how contagious diseases clash with the official narrative of emerging modernized urban settings and challenge the desire for political and economic stability.
Irish Literature in Italy in the Era of the World Wars
Author: Antonio Bibbò
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030835863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book addresses both the dissemination and increased understanding of the specificity of Irish literature in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. This period was a crucial time of nation-building for both countries. Antonio Bibbò illustrates the various images of Ireland that circulated in Italy, focusing on political and cultural discourses and examines the laborious formation of an Irish literary canon in Italy. The center of this analysis relies on books and articles on Irish politics, culture, and literature produced in Italy, including pamplets, anthologies, literary histories, and propaganda; translations of texts by Irish writers; and archival material produced by writers, publishers, and cultural and political institutions. Bibbò argues that the construction of different and often conflicting ideas of Ireland in Italy as well as the wavering understanding of the distinctiveness of Irish culture, substantially affected the Italian responses to Irish writers and their presence within the Italian publishing field. This book contributes to the discussion on transnational aspects of canon formation, reception studies, and Italian cultural studies.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030835863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book addresses both the dissemination and increased understanding of the specificity of Irish literature in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. This period was a crucial time of nation-building for both countries. Antonio Bibbò illustrates the various images of Ireland that circulated in Italy, focusing on political and cultural discourses and examines the laborious formation of an Irish literary canon in Italy. The center of this analysis relies on books and articles on Irish politics, culture, and literature produced in Italy, including pamplets, anthologies, literary histories, and propaganda; translations of texts by Irish writers; and archival material produced by writers, publishers, and cultural and political institutions. Bibbò argues that the construction of different and often conflicting ideas of Ireland in Italy as well as the wavering understanding of the distinctiveness of Irish culture, substantially affected the Italian responses to Irish writers and their presence within the Italian publishing field. This book contributes to the discussion on transnational aspects of canon formation, reception studies, and Italian cultural studies.
Rebellion, Death, and Aesthetics in Italy
Author: David Del Principe
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Although these artists are loosely grouped as a literary movement, the influence of Scapigliatura has been rightfully confirmed in Decadent fin de siecle literature and, arguably, in the twentieth-century historical avant-garde.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Although these artists are loosely grouped as a literary movement, the influence of Scapigliatura has been rightfully confirmed in Decadent fin de siecle literature and, arguably, in the twentieth-century historical avant-garde.
Decadence, Degeneration, and the End
Author: Marja Härmänmaa
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137470860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137470860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.
Decadent Poetics
Author: J. Hall
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137348291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137348291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
Author: Gaetana Marrone
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1579583903
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1579583903
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
Publisher description