Journal ArticleItalian Culture · January 1, 2022
Perhaps the most essential device for the organization of the novel form is narrative point of view. Mikhail Bakhtin, in “Discourse in the Novel” (1934–1935), maintains in fact that “every language in the novel is a point of view, a socio-ideological conce ...
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Journal ArticleItalian Studies · November 1, 2010
The essay looks at Luciano Bianciardi's most autobiographical novels, written between 1957 and 1962, as symptoms of the transformation of cultural work in the years of Italy's economic miracle. By focusing on Bianciardi's own tropes of travel and translati ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean History Quarterly · January 1, 2006
Expelled from Spain in 1779, the Jesuit Juan Andrés moved to Parma in Italy, and published a seven-volume history of nothing less than the literatures of the whole world - 'Of the Origins and Progress of all Literatures'. Andrés attempted to found literary ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Modern Italian Studies · December 1, 2003
World War II is over. Italy is radically transformed with new modes of production and consumption, of thinking and dreaming, of living the present, remembering the past, and projecting the future. Here is the end of an 'old' archaic Italy, and the beginnin ...
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