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Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919 : Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443866705
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919DDC classification:
  • 344.450419
LOC classification:
  • KKH4060 -- .V645 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON THE COVER IMAGE -- INTRODUCTION - A CULTURE OF DEATH -- CHAPTER ONE - THE "CIVIL SUICIDE" OF FRANCESCO LOMONACO -- CHAPTER TWO - THE LIFE AND TRAGIC EPILOGUE OF PATRIOT FRANCESCO BENEDETI -- CHAPTER THREE - THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE IN GIACOMO LEOPARDI -- CHAPTER FOUR - SUICIDI DI PRIMO OTTOCENTO -- CHAPTER FIVE - EMILIO PRAGA'S SUICIDIO -- CHAPTER SIX - LA TEMATICA DEL SUICIDIO NELLA SCAPIGLIATURA. -- CHAPTER SEVEN - REPRESENTATIONS OF SUICIDE IN ITALIAN NARRATIVES FROM THE 1860S TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- CHAPTER EIGHT - IN PLAIN SIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE - "THEN I SHALL SLEEP." -- CHAPTER TEN - EGOISTIC AND ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE IN THE WRITINGS OF F.T. MARINETTI PRE- AND POST-FUTURISM -- CHAPTER ELEVEN - MICHELSTAEDTER THE POET THROUGH MONTALE -- CHAPTER TWELVE - HARAKIRI ALL'ITALIANA -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ANTONIA POZZI -- CONTRIBUTORS.
Summary: The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely trea.
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON THE COVER IMAGE -- INTRODUCTION - A CULTURE OF DEATH -- CHAPTER ONE - THE "CIVIL SUICIDE" OF FRANCESCO LOMONACO -- CHAPTER TWO - THE LIFE AND TRAGIC EPILOGUE OF PATRIOT FRANCESCO BENEDETI -- CHAPTER THREE - THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE IN GIACOMO LEOPARDI -- CHAPTER FOUR - SUICIDI DI PRIMO OTTOCENTO -- CHAPTER FIVE - EMILIO PRAGA'S SUICIDIO -- CHAPTER SIX - LA TEMATICA DEL SUICIDIO NELLA SCAPIGLIATURA. -- CHAPTER SEVEN - REPRESENTATIONS OF SUICIDE IN ITALIAN NARRATIVES FROM THE 1860S TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- CHAPTER EIGHT - IN PLAIN SIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE - "THEN I SHALL SLEEP." -- CHAPTER TEN - EGOISTIC AND ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE IN THE WRITINGS OF F.T. MARINETTI PRE- AND POST-FUTURISM -- CHAPTER ELEVEN - MICHELSTAEDTER THE POET THROUGH MONTALE -- CHAPTER TWELVE - HARAKIRI ALL'ITALIANA -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ANTONIA POZZI -- CONTRIBUTORS.

The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely trea.

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