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Author:
Viscusi, Robert.
Title:
Buried Caesars, and other secrets of Italian American writing / Robert Viscusi.
Publisher:
State University of New York Press,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
xxii, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--Italian influences.
Italian Americans--Intellectual life.
Italian Americans in literature.
Schrijvers.
Italianen.
Amerikanen.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Secrets of Italian American writing -- English as a dialect of Italian -- De vulgari eloquentia: ordinary eloquence in Italian America -- Il caso della casa: stories of houses in Italian America -- Immigrant ambitions and American literature -- The text in the dust: writing Italy across America -- The semiology of semen: questioning the father -- Circles of the cyclopes: concentric history -- A literature considering itself: the allegory of Italian America -- The Italian American sign -- The imperial sopranos.
Series:
SUNY series in Italian/American culture
ISBN:
9780791466339 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791466337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)57669699
LCCN:
2005003758
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

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