The Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature
Subtitle: The Case of Liguria
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Apr 29, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781611476392
Description: The book focuses on literary representations of the northern Italian region of Liguria, whose landscape has been portrayed by internationally-known Italian poets and novelists, from Eugenio Montale to Italo Calvino. The author argues that the most perceptive authors situate themselves on a metaphorical ridge dividing the 2dark side3 of Mediterranean landscape, with its harsh and mountainous territory, from the sun-drenched Riviera, celebrated by the tourist industry and for the most part destroyed during the so-called economic boom. The complex and often antithetical concepts of landscape examined in the introduction inform the author{u2019}s readings of those modern and contemporary writers who have tried to make sense of the ambivalences present in Ligurian landscape, from the period of Italian Risorgimento to the present.
Notes: Source title: The Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature: The Case of Liguria (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies)