Book · October 22, 2020
This book looks at modern American fiction in its own Italianate coloration: the interplay of sex (the red of passion), violence (the black of violence), and sanctity (the gold of redemption). Its purpose is to involve the reader in the mythopoetics of Am ...
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Book · May 2005
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Feeling Italian: the Art of Ethnicity in America (NYU, December ’04?) explores the Italian Catholic aesthetic seduction of the United States– from the once-infamous trials of murderess Maria Barbella and the eerily prescient city paintings of Josep ...
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Book · 1997
Contributions by Patrick Allitt, Paul Crowley, James T. Fisher, Paul Giles, Mary Gordon, Stanley Hauerwas, Frank Lentricchia, Robert A. Orsi, Camille Paglia, David Plante, Richard Rodriguez, Kathy Rudy, Andrew Sullivan, and Mary Jo Weaver ...
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