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The Power of the Story
Author | : Michael Hanne |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781571810519 |
"... a spirited, well-researched volume ... this highly readable study is an impressive work ofcontemporary criticism, richly deserving of its intended general and academic audiences." - Choice Can a novel cause riots, start a war, free serfs or slaves, break up marriages, drive readers to suicide, close factories, bring about law change, swing an election, or serve as a weapon in a national or international struggle? The author explores this question in the form of a theoretical essay on narrative and power, followed by five detailed case studies of works by Turgenev, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ignazio Silone, Solzhenitsyn and Salman Rushdie, each of which had or was said to have had a major impact on the political events in its time. Forcefully argued and written with a minimum of jargon, this book no doubt appeals to a wide readership well beyond that of the specialist in literature.
Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation
Author | : Robin Healey |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802008008 |
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
Fontamara
Author | : Ignazio Silone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The setting of this novel is poverty-stricken southern Italy under Mussolini's fascist regime -- but it could easily be any time, anywhere that the helpless and dispossessed see their very existence threatened by the powers that rule and own the earth. Ignazio Silone's searingly compassionate vision of the human condition gives a fable-like quality to this story of peasants searching for a way to stop the legal theft of their vital source of water -- a story that comes to center around Berardo, the untutored, hot-tempered young man who becomes their leader and eventually a martyr. There is no idealistic rhetoric in this deeply moving novel; instead there is a blend of pungent reality and earthy humor, of cutting irony and the unsentimental facing of facts, that makes "Fontamara" one of the major works of fiction to emerge form the social, political, and economic crucible of the 1930s
The Abruzzo Trilogy
Author | : Ignazio Silone |
Publisher | : Steerforth |
Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The desolate, impoverished mountain region of the Abruzzo during Mussolini's reign provides the backdrop for the three greatest novels of Ignazio Silone, one of the century's most important writers. Together, these revolutionary works create an indelible image of ordinary people struggling against overwhelming events.
The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone
Author | : Elizabeth Leake |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802087676 |
The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone raises complex theoretical issues about authorship and audiences and about the relationship between text and context.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
Author | : Gaetana Marrone |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 2258 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Italian literature |
ISBN | : 1579583903 |
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Ignazio Silone
Author | : Maria Nicolai Paynter |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802007056 |
Throughout his life, the internationally known novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) struggled indomitably for social justice. In this book, Maria Nicolai Paynter discusses the many controversial issues surrounding Silone and his writing, analysing in detail his intellectual and political convictions and assesses the artistic achievement and stylistic development in his works. Paynter argues that a profound authenticity is at the core of Silone's writing and that his tragic vision emanates from a concepte of heroism based not on pride and self-serving defiance but rather on moral courage and integrity. Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism and his concept of ironic myth provide the theoretical framework through which Paynter guides the reader to an understanding of Silone's particular brand of realism and his unique message. Ignazio Silone: Beyond the Tragic Visionis a new, expanded version in English of an earlier Italian-language book which won the Premio Internazionale Letterario Ignazio Silone. It is the first comprehensive book in English on Silone's life, his writings, and their critical reception.