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Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature: The Case of Liguria

Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature: The Case of Liguria

Pagano, Tullio

Hardcover

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Italian Studies

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Nature

ISBN10: 1611476399
ISBN13: 9781611476392
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Apr 29 2015
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 dark side 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'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.

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