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Author Cesaretti, Enrico, 1963- author.

Title Elemental narratives : reading environmental entanglements in modern Italy / Enrico Cesaretti
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
AnthropoScene.
Contents Modernist matters -- Slick territories : petroculture, Italian style -- Apua ma(t)ter : narratives of marble -- Steel and asbestos : stories of toxic lands and bodies in Tuscany and beyond -- Concrete and asphalt : geographies of environmental disruption in modern Italy
Summary "Using an ecomaterialist conceptual framework, addresses interconnected stories from fiction, nonfiction, works of visual art, and physical sites in Italy and elsewhere"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Ecocriticism
Ecology in literature
Italian environment
Italian literature
Italian petroculture
Italian toxic autobiographies
Italy
Landscapes in literature
Nature in literature
asbestos
cement
ecomaterialism
entanglement
environmental humanities and Italy
marble
material ecocriticism
oil
pollution
steel
storied matter
toxic bodies
toxic landscapes
trans-corporality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Ecology in literature.
Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Italian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Environmentalism in literature.
Pollution in literature.
Ecology in literature
Environmentalism in literature
Italian literature
Pollution in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271088471
0271088478
9780271088495
0271088494