Ecocritical approaches to Italian culture and literature : the denatured wild /

By recognizing the groundbreaking work of many non-Italian ecocritics, and linking to the homegrown contributions of Serenella Lovino, Marco Armerio and Giovanna Ricoveri, the authors of Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild, challenge the narrowly defined conv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verdicchio, Pasquale, 1954- (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
Series:Ecocritical theory and practice.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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 mémoir / Stefania Nedderman
  • Ch. 7. The environmental aesthetics of Sabina Guzzanti's Le ragione dell'aragosta / Marguerite Ealler
  • Ch. 8. Toxic disorder and civic possibility: viewing the land of fires from the Phlegraean fields / Pasquale Verdicchio.