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Title:

Resistance, heroism, loss : World War II in Italian literature and film / edited by Thomas Cragin and Laura A. Salsini.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxxii, 168 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Italian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
War films--Italy--History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
War in literature.
Underground movements in literature.
Underground movements in motion pictures.

Other Authors:

Cragin, Thomas, editor.
Salsini, Laura A. (Laura Anne), editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95053175

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: phases in Italy's representations of World War II -- Poetic truth of war: Elsa Morante's "The Sicilian soldier" / Gabrielle Orsi -- Brotherhood of arms: patriotism, Atlanticism and sublimation of war in 1950s Italian war movies / Gianluca Fantoni -- Responses to Cold War crisis: La ciociara from Moravia to De Sica / Thomas Cragin -- Andremo in Città: a Levinasian witnessing in Edith Bruck's short story and Nelo Risi's film / Virginia Picchietti -- Spaces of resistance: the role of the mountain in Italy's partisan war / Angela Boscolo Berto -- Mysteries of Italian women partisans in Luce d'Eramo's Una strana fortuna and in Bruno Morchio's Rossoamaro / Barbara Zaczek -- La rappresaglia: highlighting female identity through the emotion of shame / Simonetta Milli Konewko -- Visions of virility: masculinity and memory in the Italian war film / Rebecca Bauman.

Series:

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies

ISBN:

1683931378
9781683931379

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1014051657

LCCN:

2017060578

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)