| Description |
xiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Italy in the Cultural Cosmorama -- 1. Cities, Dantesque and Other -- 2. Sexuality, Class and Economics: The Decameron as Originary Text -- 3. 'The Architect Achieves His Victory': Renaissance and Later Ideal Cities -- 4. 'When the Kissing Had to Stop': Eighteenth-century Venice - Apotheosis or Decline? -- 5. Opera, Politics and Television: Bel Canto by Satellite -- 6. Mimesis or Montage? Reflections on the Languages of Literature and Cinema -- 7. The Triumph of Death: History in the Sicilian Context -- 8. 'A Fine Funeral of Our Identities? The Italian Diaspora of the Modern Epoch |
| Summary |
Taking an interdisciplinary culturalist approach, this volume is a study of dynamic continuities as well as crises and fissures in Italian culture. It studies cultural evolution through several different ages in the formation of modern Italy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- Italian influences.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068886
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| LC no. |
00061217 |
| ISBN |
0718502574 |
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0718502582 paperback |
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0826452930 : |
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