Italian Cultural Lineages / / Jonathan White.
In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes ? viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles ? White offers new...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Kangaroos, Papyrus Scrolls, and the Poetics of Cultural History
- 1. Modes of Viewing: From Vasari to Film and Television Culture
- 2. Fantasy, Science, and Hyperreality: From Ariosto and Galileo to Las Vegas
- 3. Passion in the Operatic Repertoire
- 4. Capital Contrasts: Naples and Turin a Century before Unification
- 5. Justice and the Individual, Torture and the State
- 6. Italy's Romantic Reputation
- 7. Lifestyles High and Low in Changing Post-Unification Urbanism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index