Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature : The Denatured Wild.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (170 pages)
- Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series .
- Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Wisdom of the Hand and the Memory of a Mediterranean More Than Human Humanism -- 2 The Hybrid "Biocitizen" in Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City -- 3 Italian Woods Between Environmentalism and Children's Literature in Dino Buzzati's Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio -- 4 The Cervi Family -- 5 A House in Flames -- 6 Il Bosco Degli Urogalli -- 7 The Environmental Aesthetics of Sabina Guzzanti's Le Ragioni Dell'aragosta -- 8 Toxic Disorder and Civic Possibility -- Index -- Author Biographies.
By recognizing the groundbreaking work of many non-Italian ecocritics, and linking to the homegrown contributions of Serenella Iovino, Marco Armerio, and Giovanna Ricoveri, the authors of Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild, challenge the narrowly defined conventions of Italian Studies and illuminate the complexities of an Italian ecocriticism that reveals a rich environmentally engaged literary and cultural tradition.