Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature (eBook, ePUB)

The Denatured Wild
Redaktion: Verdicchio, Pasquale

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume provide a theorization of what we might call the "denatured" wild, in other words a notion of environmental "restoration" or "reinhabitation" that recognizes and reconfigures the human factor as an interdependent entity. Acknowledging the contributions of Marco Armerio, Serenella Iovino, Giovanna Ricoveri, Patrick Barron and Anna Re among others, Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild negotiates the ground within the historicizing, theoretical perspectives, and surveying spirit of these writers. Despite the central role that nature has played in Italian culture and literature, there has been an evident lack of critical approaches free of the bridles of the socio-political manipulations of nationalism. The authors in this collection, by recognizing the groundbreaking work of many non-Italian ecocritics, challenge the narrowly defined conventions of Italian Studies and illuminates the complexities of an Italian ecocriticism that reveals a rich environmentally engaged literary and cultural tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498518888
• Artikelnr.: 45987381

Autorenporträt

Pasquale Verdicchio is director of the Italian Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Pasquale Verdicchio
Ch. 1 The Wisdom Of The Hand And The Memory Of A Mediterranean More Than
Human Humanism. Massimo Lollini
Ch. 2 The Hybrid "Biocitizen" In Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo Or The Seasons
In The
City. Adele Sanna
Ch. 3 Italian Woods Between Environmentalism And Children's Literature
In Dino Buzzati's Il Segreto Del Bosco Vecchio. Viola Ardeni
Ch. 4 The Cervi Family: A Peasant Story. Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan
Ch. 5 A House In Flames: Environmental Ethics In The Writing Of Sebastiano
Vassalli.
Meriel Tulante
Ch. 6 Il Bosco Degli Urogalli. A Lieu De Mémoire. Stefania Nedderman
Ch. 7 The Environmental Aesthetics Of Sabina Guzzanti's Le Ragione
Dell'aragosta.
Marguerite Waller
Ch. 8 Toxic Disorder And Civic Possibility: Viewing The Land Of Fires From
The
Phlegraean Fields. Pasquale Verdicchio