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City in Search of an Author

City in Search of an Author

Pizzi, Katia

Hardcover

Literary CriticismItalian History

ISBN10: 1841272841
ISBN13: 9781841272849
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Mar 12 2002
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

Poised between the Mediterranean and the Mitteleuropa, crossroads of civilizations and seat of vibrant cultural and literary life, Trieste is now acknowledged as enjoying unrivalled cultural status amongst Italian cities. This volume, the first comprehensive study of Triestine literature in English, originally reassesses Trieste s literary identity, paying particular attention to the period between 1918 and 1954 when local writing became intensely aware of its local specificity and some of its central motifs came prominently to the fore. Trieste s singular border identity, mirrored in a variegated literary output, emerges here as laden with complexities and ambiguities, such as the controversial notion of triestinita, the ambiguous relation with nationalism, specifically in its Fascist inflection, and the anxieties generated by repeated re-definitions of the area s historical borders.

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