The Cambridge companion to modern Italian culture
By: edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Rebecca J. West.
Contributors: Barański, Zygmunt G.; West, Rebecca J., 1946-
Series: Cambridge companions to culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Arts, Italian -- 20th century.; Arts, Italian -- 19th century.; Italy -- Civilization -- 20th century.; Italy -- Civilization -- 19th century.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Other titles: Modern Italian culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The notion of Italy 17; title: ,JOHN DICKIE; title: 2 Social and political cultures in Italy from 1860 to the present day 35; title: ANNA CENTO BULL; title: 3 Questions of language 63; title: BRIAN RICHARDSON; title: 4 Intellectuals, culture and power in modern Italy 81; title: DAVID WARD; title: 5 Catholicism 97; title: PERCY ALLUM; title: 6 Socialism, Communism and other 'isms' 113; title: ROBERT S. DOMBROSKI; title: 7 other voices: contesting the status quo 131; title: SHARON WOOD and JOSEPH FARRELL; title: :8 Narratives of self and society 151; title: GIAN-PAOLO BIASIN; title: 9 Searching for new languages: modern Italian poetry 173; title: SHIRLEY W. VINALL and TOM O'NEILL; title: lo Drama: realism, identity and reality on stage 197; title: ANN LAURA LEPSCHY; title: 11 Italian cinema 215; title: PETER BONDANELLA; title: 12 Art in modern Italy: from the Macchiaioli to the; title: Transavanguardia 243; title: EUGENIA PAULICELLI; title: 13 A modern identity for a new nation: design in Italy since 1860 265; title: PENNY SPARKE; title: 14 Fashion: narration and nation 282; title: EUGENIA PAULICELLI; title: 15 The media 293; title: CHRISTOPHER WAGSTAFF; title: 16 Since Verdi: Italian serious music 1860-1995 311; title: JOHN C. G. WATERHOUSE; title: 17 Folk music and popular song from the nineteenth century to; title: the 199os 325; title: ALESSANDRO CARRERA; title: 18 Epilogue: Italian culture or multiculture in the new; title: millennium? 337; title: REBECCA J. WEST; title: Index 347.