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The Cambridge history of Italian literature / edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 699 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Brand, C. P. (Charles Peter) and Pertile, Lino
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Contents
Origins and Duecento / Jonathan Usher. 1. The earliest evidence. 2. Poetry. 3. Prose. 4. Dante / Lino Pertile. 5. Boccaccio / Pamela D. Stewart. 6. Petrarch / John Took. 7. Minor writers / Steven Botterill. 8. Humanism. 9. Power, patronage and literary associations. 10. Literature in the vernacular -- The Cinquecento. 11. Prose / Brian Richardson. 12. Narrative poetry / Peter Marinelli. 13. Lyric poetry / Anthony Oldcorn. 14. Theatre / Richard Andrews -- The Seicento: Poetry, Philosophy and Science / Paolo Cherchi. 15. The Baroque. 16. Lyric poetry. 17. Mock-epic poetry and satire. 18. Treatises. 19. Narrative prose. 20. Theatre. 21. Opera / David Kimbell -- The Settecento / Franco Fido. 22. The first half of the Settecento. 23. The theatre from Metastasio to Goldoni. 24. Opera / David Kimbell. 25. The Enlightenment and Parini. 26. Alfieri and pre-Romanticism. 27. The Romantic controversy. 28. Monti. 29. Foscolo. 30. Leopardi. 31. Manzoni and the novel. 32. Other novelists and poets of the Risorgimento. 33. Opera since 1800 / David Kimbell -- The Literature of United Italy (1870-1910). 34. Writer and society in the new Italy / Robert Dombroski. 35. Pirandello / Felicity Firth -- The Rise and Fall of Fascism (1910-45) / Robert Dombroski. 36. Poetry and the avant-garde. 37. Philosophy and literature from Croce to Gramsci. 38. The novel -- The Aftermath of the Second World War (1945-56) / John Gatt-Rutter. 39. After the Liberation. 40. Neo-realism. 41. History and the poets -- Contemporary Italy (since 1956) / Michael Caesar. 42. The late 1950s and the 1960s. 43. The 1970s. 44. The 1980s.
Summary
Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the thirteenth century. This first substantial history of Italian literature to appear in the English language for forty years provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing from its earliest origins up to the present day. Leading scholars describe and assess the work of writers who have contributed to the Italian literary tradition, including Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, the Renaissance humanists, Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, pioneers and practitioners of commedia dell'arte and opera, and the contemporary novelists Calvino and Eco. The Cambridge History of Italian Literature sets out to be accessible to the general reader as well as to students and scholars: translations are provided, along with a map, chronological chart and up-to-date and substantial bibliographies.
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9781139056175 (ebook)
9780521434928 (hardback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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