The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s.
The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Barbara Alfano is a member of the faculty in Italian at Bennington College.
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* Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Vantage of the I: Prospecting in Perspective 3. The Ethics of the Subject 4. The Self and Italian Narrative 5. Matters of Space: “l’America sta qua.” The Place of the New World in Italian literature 6. Scholarship and the History of the American Myth 7. Italian Modernism and America 8. The Left “I”: A Close-up on the Italian Leftist Intellectual 9. Mapping the Journey 10. 1 Wandering Subjects 11. The “I” at Wonder in Caro diario and Sogni mancini 12. The Moralizing “I” of Nanni Moretti 13. Caro diario: The Glue of Irony between Stupor and Stupidity 14. Identities in absentia in Sogni mancini 15. 2 America Ubiqua 16. Displacing the Continent 17. The Site of City: A Global Explosion 18. The Ethical Space of City’s Subjects 19. Non ci resta che piangere: The Counter-Enterprise 20. Lamerica 21. 3 On a Trip to America: The “I” Travels 22. Setting Out for the Self 23. Treno di panna, A Train That Goes Nowhere 24. Baudrillard’s Amérique and Giovanni’s America: The Desert Explained and Exposed 25. Staging the Insignificant 26. 4 American Arcadia 27. An “I” on Intellectual and Civil Engagement 28. Alter Ego: The Narrator 29. Et in Arcadia Ego 30. Love and Endings in Arcadia 31. Arcadia Responds 32. 5 Historicizing the Dream: A Documented Eye on America 33. A New Perspective 34. Vita 35. The Dream of the Fathers 36. Nuovomondo 37. The American Dream and Globalization * Conclusion * Notes * Works Cited * Index of Names and Titles
* Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Vantage of the I: Prospecting in Perspective 3. The Ethics of the Subject 4. The Self and Italian Narrative 5. Matters of Space: “l’America sta qua.” The Place of the New World in Italian literature 6. Scholarship and the History of the American Myth 7. Italian Modernism and America 8. The Left “I”: A Close-up on the Italian Leftist Intellectual 9. Mapping the Journey 10. 1 Wandering Subjects 11. The “I” at Wonder in Caro diario and Sogni mancini 12. The Moralizing “I” of Nanni Moretti 13. Caro diario: The Glue of Irony between Stupor and Stupidity 14. Identities in absentia in Sogni mancini 15. 2 America Ubiqua 16. Displacing the Continent 17. The Site of City: A Global Explosion 18. The Ethical Space of City’s Subjects 19. Non ci resta che piangere: The Counter-Enterprise 20. Lamerica 21. 3 On a Trip to America: The “I” Travels 22. Setting Out for the Self 23. Treno di panna, A Train That Goes Nowhere 24. Baudrillard’s Amérique and Giovanni’s America: The Desert Explained and Exposed 25. Staging the Insignificant 26. 4 American Arcadia 27. An “I” on Intellectual and Civil Engagement 28. Alter Ego: The Narrator 29. Et in Arcadia Ego 30. Love and Endings in Arcadia 31. Arcadia Responds 32. 5 Historicizing the Dream: A Documented Eye on America 33. A New Perspective 34. Vita 35. The Dream of the Fathers 36. Nuovomondo 37. The American Dream and Globalization * Conclusion * Notes * Works Cited * Index of Names and Titles
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