Title & Author:

The Cambridge companion to modern Italian culture / edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Rebecca J. West.

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Description:

xix, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Cambridge companions to culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing modern Italian culture / Zygmunt G. Barański -- The notion of Italy / John Dickie -- Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day / Anna Cento Bull -- Questions of language / Brian Richardson -- Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy / David Ward -- Catholicism / Percy Allum -- Socialism, Communism and other 'isms' / Robert S. Dombroski -- Other voices : contesting the status quo / Sharon Wood, Joseph Farrell -- Narratives of self and society / Gian-Paolo Biasin -- Searching for new languages : modern Italian poetry / Shirley W. Vinall, Tom O'Neill -- Drama : realism, identity and reality on stage / Ann Laura Lepschy -- Italian cinema / Peter Bondanella -- Art in modern Italy : from the Macchiaioli to the Transavanguardia / Eugenia Paulicelli -- A modern identity for a new nation : design in Italy since 1860 / Penny Sparke -- Fashion : narration and nation / Eugenia Paulicelli -- The media / Christopher Wagstaff -- Since Verdi : Italian serious music 1860-1995 / John C.G. Waterhouse -- Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to the 1990s / Alessandro Carrera -- Epilogue : Italian culture or multiculture in the new millennium? / Rebecca J. West.

Summary:

Offering a thorough history of Italian cultural movements, political trends and literary texts over the last century and a half, this text also examines the cultural and political situation in Italy today.

Resources:
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Table of contents
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Publisher description
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Table of Contents

ISBN:

0521550343
9780521550345
0521559820 (pb.)
9780521559829 (pb.)
9780511999734
0511999739

Subject:

Arts, Italian 20th century.
Arts, Italian 19th century.
Arts italiens 20e siècle.
Arts italiens 19e siècle.
Arts, Italian
Civilization
Intellectual life
Landeskunde
Kultur
Cultuur.
Kunst.
Maatschappij.
Italy Civilization 20th century.
Italy Civilization 19th century.
Italy Intellectual life 20th century.
Italy Intellectual life 19th century.
Italy Civilization 1789-1900.
Italy Intellectual life 1789-1900.
Italy Civilization.
Italie Civilisation 20e siècle.
Italie Civilisation 19e siècle.
Italie Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
Italie Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Italy
Italien

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Barański, Zygmunt G.
West, Rebecca J., 1946-
Cambridge companions to culture.

Modern Italian culture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227973
Call No.: DG451 .C35 2001
Status: Available