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The Cambridge companion to modern Italian culture / edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski and Rebecca J. West.

Contributor(s): Series: Cambridge companions to culturePublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: xix, 363 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521550343
  • 0521559820 (pb.)
Other title:
  • Modern Italian culture
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 945/.08 21
LOC classification:
  • DG451 .C35 2001
Contents:
Introducing modern Italian culture / Zygmunt G. Baranski. -- 1. The notion of Italy / John Dickie -- 2. Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day / Anna Cento Bull -- 3. Questions of language / Brian Richardson -- 4. Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy / David Ward -- 5. Catholicism / Percy Allum -- 6. Socialism, Communism and other 'isms' / Robert S. Dombroski -- 7. Other voices: contesting the status quo / Sharon Wood and Joseph Farrell -- 8. Narratives of self and society / Gian-Paolo Biasin -- 9. Searching for new languages: modern Italian poetry / Shirley W. Vinall and Tom O'Neill -- l0. Drama: realism, identity and reality on stage / Ann Laura Lepschy -- 11. Italian cinema / Peter Bondanella -- 12. Art in modern Italy: from the Macchiaioli to the Transavanguardia / Eugenia Paulicelli -- 13. A modern identity for a new nation: design in Italy since 1860 / Penny Sparke -- 14. Fashion: narration and nation / Eugenia Paulicelli -- 15. The media / Christopher Wagstaff -- 16. Since Verdi: Italian serious music 1860-1995 / John C.G. Waterhouse -- 17. Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s / Alessandro Carrera -- 18. Epilogue: Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium? / Rebecca J. West.
Summary: Publisher description : Provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Specially-commissioned essays by leading specialists focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media, and music. While offering a thorough history of Italian cultural movements, political trends and literary texts over the last century and a half, the volume also examines the cultural and political situation in Italy today and suggests possible future directions in which the country might move. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading on the topics covered. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture is an invaluable source of materials for courses on all aspects of modern Italy.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks DG451 .C35 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000682012

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing modern Italian culture / Zygmunt G. Baranski. -- 1. The notion of Italy / John Dickie -- 2. Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day / Anna Cento Bull -- 3. Questions of language / Brian Richardson -- 4. Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy / David Ward -- 5. Catholicism / Percy Allum -- 6. Socialism, Communism and other 'isms' / Robert S. Dombroski -- 7. Other voices: contesting the status quo / Sharon Wood and Joseph Farrell -- 8. Narratives of self and society / Gian-Paolo Biasin -- 9. Searching for new languages: modern Italian poetry / Shirley W. Vinall and Tom O'Neill -- l0. Drama: realism, identity and reality on stage / Ann Laura Lepschy -- 11. Italian cinema / Peter Bondanella -- 12. Art in modern Italy: from the Macchiaioli to the Transavanguardia / Eugenia Paulicelli -- 13. A modern identity for a new nation: design in Italy since 1860 / Penny Sparke -- 14. Fashion: narration and nation / Eugenia Paulicelli -- 15. The media / Christopher Wagstaff -- 16. Since Verdi: Italian serious music 1860-1995 / John C.G. Waterhouse -- 17. Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s / Alessandro Carrera -- 18. Epilogue: Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium? / Rebecca J. West.

Publisher description : Provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Specially-commissioned essays by leading specialists focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media, and music. While offering a thorough history of Italian cultural movements, political trends and literary texts over the last century and a half, the volume also examines the cultural and political situation in Italy today and suggests possible future directions in which the country might move. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading on the topics covered. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture is an invaluable source of materials for courses on all aspects of modern Italy.

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