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The Italian in Modernity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (892 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442687073
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Italian in ModernityDDC classification:
  • 945
LOC classification:
  • DG441 .C38 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Stendhal and Italy -- Part One: Is Italy Civilized? -- Part Two: Leisure, Tourism, and Their Discontents -- 2 The Unbroken Charm: New Englanders in Italy -- 3 Isle of the Dead -- 4 From Italophilia to Italophobia: Italian Americans in the Gilded Age -- 5 Puccini's American Theme -- 6 'To Die Is Not Enough!': Hemingway and D'Annunzio -- 7 The Hidden Godfather: Plenitude and Absence in Coppola's Trilogy -- 8 The Representation of Italian Americans in American Cinema: From the Silent Film to The Godfather -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: In this study, Robert Casillo and John Paul Russo look at both Italy and Italian America to explore the paradoxical representation of Italy as the originator of modernity that has resisted many modern tendencies.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Stendhal and Italy -- Part One: Is Italy Civilized? -- Part Two: Leisure, Tourism, and Their Discontents -- 2 The Unbroken Charm: New Englanders in Italy -- 3 Isle of the Dead -- 4 From Italophilia to Italophobia: Italian Americans in the Gilded Age -- 5 Puccini's American Theme -- 6 'To Die Is Not Enough!': Hemingway and D'Annunzio -- 7 The Hidden Godfather: Plenitude and Absence in Coppola's Trilogy -- 8 The Representation of Italian Americans in American Cinema: From the Silent Film to The Godfather -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

In this study, Robert Casillo and John Paul Russo look at both Italy and Italian America to explore the paradoxical representation of Italy as the originator of modernity that has resisted many modern tendencies.

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