The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
Part of Cambridge Companions to Culture
- Editors:
- Zygmunt G. Baranski, University of Reading
- Rebecca J. West, University of Chicago
- Date Published: August 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521550345
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This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media, and music. While offering a thorough history of Italian cultural movements, political trends and literary texts over the last century and a half, the volume also examines the cultural and political situation in Italy today and suggests possible future directions in which the country might move. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading on the topics covered. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture is an invaluable source of materials for courses on all aspects of modern Italy.
Read more- Unique and wide-ranging introduction to modern Italian culture in all its variety
- Essays written by leading scholars in their various fields
- Accessible volume, written as invaluable introduction to appeal to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines
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- Date Published: August 2001
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521550345
- length: 392 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.74kg
- contains: 30 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Chronology of events
Introducing modern Italian culture Zygmunt G. Baranski
1. The notion of Italy John Dickie
2. Social and political cultures in Italy 1860 to the present day Anna Cento Bull
3. Questions of language Brian Richardson
4. Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy David Ward
5. Catholicism Percy Allum
6. Socialism, Communism and other 'isms' Robert S. Dombroski
7. Other voices: contesting the status quo Sharon Wood and Joseph Farrell
8. Narratives of self and society Gian-Paolo Biasin
9. Searching for new languages: modern Italian poetry Shirley W. Vinall and Tom O'Neill
10. Drama: realism, identity and reality on stage Anna Laura Lepschy
11. Italian cinema Peter Bondanella
12. Art in modern Italy: from the Macchiaioli to the Transvanguardia Eugenia Paulicelli
13. A modern identity for a new nation: design in Italy after 1860 Penny Sparke: Fashion: narration and nation Eugenia Paulicelli
14. The media Christopher Wagstaff
15. Since Verdi: Italian music 1860–1995 John C. G. Waterhouse
16. Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s Alessandro Carrera
Epilogue: Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium Rebecca West
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