Main entry:

White, Jonathan, 1945-

Title & Author:

Italy : the enduring culture / Jonathan White.

Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.

Description:

xiii, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-336) and index.
Introduction: Italy in the Cultural Cosmorama -- 1. Cities, Dantesque and Other -- 2. Sexuality, Class and Economics: The Decameron as Originary Text -- 3. 'The Architect Achieves His Victory': Renaissance and Later Ideal Cities -- 4. 'When the Kissing Had to Stop': Eighteenth-century Venice -- Apotheosis or Decline? -- 5. Opera, Politics and Television: Bel Canto by Satellite -- 6. Mimesis or Montage? Reflections on the Languages of Literature and Cinema -- 7. The Triumph of Death: History in the Sicilian Context -- 8. 'A Fine Funeral of Our Identities? The Italian Diaspora of the Modern Epoch.

Summary:

Taking an interdisciplinary culturalist approach, this volume is a study of dynamic continuities as well as crises and fissures in Italian culture. It studies cultural evolution through several different ages in the formation of modern Italy.

ISBN:

0826452930
9780826452931

Subject:

Civilization, Modern Italian influences.
Civilization.
Kultur
Kulturbeziehungen
Italy Civilization.
Italie Civilisation.
Italy.
Italien

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218889
Call No.: DG442 .W4 2001
Status: Available