Robert Casillo, John Paul Russo

Italian in Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this study, Robert Casillo and John Paul Russo look at both Italy and Italian America to explore the paradoxical representation of Italy as the originator of modernity that has resisted many modern tendencies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9781442641501
• ISBN-10: 1442641509
• Artikelnr.: 28431266

Autorenporträt

Robert Casillo is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Miami.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Stendhal and Italy
1. Is Italy Civilized?
2. After the Grand Tour: Leisure, Tourism, and their Discontents
2. The Unbroken Charm: New Englanders in Italy
3. Isle of the Dead
4. From Italophilia to Italophobia in the Gilded Age
5. Puccini's American Theme
6. "To Die Is Not Enough!" Hemingway and D'Annunzio
7. The Hidden Godfather: Plenitude and Absence in Coppola's Trilogy
8. The Representation of Italian Americans in American Cinema: From the Silent
Film to The Godfather
Index