Fred L Gardaphé

Italian Signs, American Streets

The Evolution of Italian American Narrative

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Bursting with energy and insights. Fred Gardaphe has added a powerful and original chapter to the literary history of modern America."--Frank Lentricchia

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780822317302
• ISBN-10: 0822317303
• Artikelnr.: 21309955

Autorenporträt

Fred L. Gardaphé is Professor of English at Columbia College, Chicago. He is the editor of Italian American Ways and author of Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian American Writer.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Narrative in the Poetic Mode 24
2. The Early Mythic Mode: From Autobiography to Autobiographical Fiction 55
3. The Middle Mythic Mode: Godfathers as Heroes, Variations on a Figure 86
4. The Later Mythic Mode: Reinventing Ethnicity through the Grandmother
Figure 119
5. Narrative in the Philosophical Mode 153
Epilogue 193
Notes 201
Works Cited 221
Index 235