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Italian Cultural Lineages.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442684461
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Italian Cultural LineagesDDC classification:
  • 945
LOC classification:
  • DG442 .W458 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Kangaroos, Papyrus Scrolls, and the Poetics of Cultural History -- 1 Modes of Viewing: From Vasari to Film and Television Culture -- 2 Fantasy, Science, and Hyperreality: From Ariosto and Galileo to Las Vegas -- 3 Passion in the Operatic Repertoire -- 4 Capital Contrasts: Naples and Turin a Century before Unification -- 5 Justice and the Individual, Torture and the State -- 6 Italy's Romantic Reputation -- 7 Lifestyles High and Low in Changing Post-Unification Urbanism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineageswill prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Kangaroos, Papyrus Scrolls, and the Poetics of Cultural History -- 1 Modes of Viewing: From Vasari to Film and Television Culture -- 2 Fantasy, Science, and Hyperreality: From Ariosto and Galileo to Las Vegas -- 3 Passion in the Operatic Repertoire -- 4 Capital Contrasts: Naples and Turin a Century before Unification -- 5 Justice and the Individual, Torture and the State -- 6 Italy's Romantic Reputation -- 7 Lifestyles High and Low in Changing Post-Unification Urbanism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineageswill prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.

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