Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 The belated development of a theory of the novel in Italian literary culture
- 2 The forms of long prose fiction in late medieval and early modern Italian literature
- 3 Alessandro Manzoni and developments in the historical novel
- 4 Literary realism in Italy
- 5 Popular fiction between Italian Unification and World War I
- 6 The foundations of Italian modernism
- 7 Neorealist narrative
- 8 Memory and testimony in Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani
- 9 The Italian novel in search of identity
- 10 Feminist writing in the twentieth century
- 11 Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco
- 12 Literary cineastes
- 13 Frontier, exile, and migration in the contemporary Italian novel
- 14 The new Italian novel
- Index
- Series List
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 The belated development of a theory of the novel in Italian literary culture
- 2 The forms of long prose fiction in late medieval and early modern Italian literature
- 3 Alessandro Manzoni and developments in the historical novel
- 4 Literary realism in Italy
- 5 Popular fiction between Italian Unification and World War I
- 6 The foundations of Italian modernism
- 7 Neorealist narrative
- 8 Memory and testimony in Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani
- 9 The Italian novel in search of identity
- 10 Feminist writing in the twentieth century
- 11 Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco
- 12 Literary cineastes
- 13 Frontier, exile, and migration in the contemporary Italian novel
- 14 The new Italian novel
- Index
- Series List
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel , pp. 233 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003