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Simona Bondavalli - Fictions of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms - 9781442649743 - V9781442649743
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Fictions of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms

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Description for Fictions of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms hardcover. Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini's prose, poetry, and cinema. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.

Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli’s book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and imagined, shaped Pasolini’s poetics and critical positions and shows how Pasolini’s works became the basis for representations of contemporary young people, particularly Italians. From Pasolini’s own coming of age under Fascism in the 1940s to the consumer capitalism of the 1970s, youth stood for innocence, vitality, and rebellion. Pasolini’s representations of youth reflected and shaped those ideas.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Toronto Italian Studies
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442649743
SKU
V9781442649743
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Ref
99-1

About Simona Bondavalli
Simona Bondavalli is an associate professor in the Department of Italian at Vassar College.

Reviews for Fictions of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms
‘Bondavalli is to be congratulated for providing such a comprehensive, meticulously researched, and incisive contextual analysis of the treatment and significance of the category of youth in Pasolini’s oeuvre.’
Fabio Vighi
Modern Language Review vol 112:03:2017

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