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Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature : The Denatured Wild.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ecocritical Theory and Practice SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (170 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498518888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and LiteratureDDC classification:
  • 850.93553
LOC classification:
  • PQ4037.E263 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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