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Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism: Stranger than Fact
David (The University Of Reading Uk) Ward
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Description for Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism: Stranger than Fact
hardcover. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 241 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3JJPL; DSBH; DSK; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 457.
This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism. It explores how contemporary Italian writers have developed narrative strategies that enable them to represent the fraught experience of Italian terrorism in the 1970s. In its conclusions, the ... Read more
This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism. It explores how contemporary Italian writers have developed narrative strategies that enable them to represent the fraught experience of Italian terrorism in the 1970s. In its conclusions, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Switzerland
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
Series
Italian and Italian American Studies
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319466477
SKU
V9783319466477
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About David (The University Of Reading Uk) Ward
David Ward is Professor of Italian Studies at Wellesley College, USA. He is the author of A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Antifascisms: Cultural Politics in Italy, 1943-1946, and Piero Gobetti’s New World: Antifascism, Liberalism, Writing.
Reviews for Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism: Stranger than Fact
“For the richness of its argument and for the clear and sure way in which it takes up its positions [...] Contemporary Italian narrative and 1970s terrorism: Stranger than fact gives an excellent account of itself as a survey of Italian narrative on the 1970s and as a very important contribution to the critical debate on the potential of literary ... Read more