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"Italy has been imagined and re-imagined by Western civilization from the latter part of the Renaissance to the present day. The Italian in Modernity provides a comprehensive overview of this conceptualization, in a volume that promises to become the leading introduction to current research in...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Casillo, Robert (Author), Russo, John Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Italian.
Italian Americans.
Italian Americans in motion pictures.
Italians.
Italiens.
Américains d'origine italienne.
Américains d'origine italienne au cinéma.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Italians
Civilization
Italian Americans
Italian Americans in motion pictures
Literature
National characteristics, Italian
Italy > Civilization.
Italy > In literature.
Italie > Civilisation.
Italy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Stendhal and Italy
  • Is Italy civilized?
  • Leisure, tourism, and their discontents
  • The unbroken charm : New Englanders in Italy
  • Isle of the dead
  • From Italophilia to Italophobia : Italian Americans in the Gilded Age
  • Puccini's American theme
  • "To die is not enough!" Hemingway and D'Annunzio
  • The hidden godfather : plenitude and absence in Coppola's trilogy
  • The representation of Italian Americans in American cinema : from the silent film to The Godfather.

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