Italian Modernism
Subtitle: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde (Toronto Italian Studies)
Contributors: Luca Somigli (Editor); Mario Moroni (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: December 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780802088284
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Social Science; Italy; European - Italian; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Italian; 20th century; Semiotics & Theory; 19th century; History and criticism; Italian literature; Modernism (Literature)
First sentence: In introducing a special volume of the journal Annali di Italianistica on postmodernism in Italy, the editor Dino Cervigni noted the difficulty of dealing with such a category from the perspective of a cultural tradition in which modernism remains at best a vague and under-determined concept.