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Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature

Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

By: Deborah Amberson

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Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature

Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

By: Deborah Amberson

Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy's beautiful garden of literature. Gadda's self-characterization as exotic and even ungainly animal applies in equal measure to Italo Svevo (1861-1928) and Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), authors who, like Gadda, thwarted efforts at critical classification. Yet the ostensible strangeness of these three Italian authors is diminished when their writing is considered within the framework of modernism, a label traditionally avoided by the Italian critical establishment. Indeed, within a modernism preoccupied with human embodiment, these Italian literary giraffes find their kin. Here, the central nexus of body, subjectivity and style that informs and binds the writing of Svevo, Tozzi and Gadda resonates with a modernist renegotiation and revalorization of a human body whose dignity and epistemological authority have been contested by social and technological modernity.

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343

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Routledge

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1351192612

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9781351192613

Jerome Robbins

His Life, His Theater, His Dance

By: Deborah Jowitt,Jerome Robbins

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Jerome Robbins

His Life, His Theater, His Dance

By: Deborah Jowitt,Jerome Robbins

Chronicles the life of American ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins, discussing his career and private life, his Russian Jewish heritage, and his impact on dance and theater.

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664

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Simon and Schuster

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0684869853

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9780684869858

Natural Washington

A Nature-lover's Guide to Parks, Wildlife Refuges, Trails, Gardens, Zoos, Forests, Aquariums, and Arboretums Within a Day's Trip of the Nation's Capital

By: Richard L. Berman,Deborah McBride

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Natural Washington

A Nature-lover's Guide to Parks, Wildlife Refuges, Trails, Gardens, Zoos, Forests, Aquariums, and Arboretums Within a Day's Trip of the Nation's Capital

By: Richard L. Berman,Deborah McBride

From the majestic trees -- 4,000 from four continents -- under the shadow of the capitol dome to a park near Fredericksburg that's a favorite of bald eagles, this guide overlooks none of the great outdoors within 50 miles of the Washington Monument.

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356

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E P M Publications

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1889324159

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9781889324159

Pennsylvania

By: Deborah Kent

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Pennsylvania

By: Deborah Kent

People of the Keystone State.

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150

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Children's Press(CT)

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0516004840

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9780516004846

Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature

Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

By: Deborah Amberson

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Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature

Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

By: Deborah Amberson

Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy's beautiful garden of literature. Gadda's self-characterization as exotic and even ungainly animal applies in equal measure to Italo Svevo (1861-1928) and Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), authors who, like Gadda, thwarted efforts at critical classification. Yet the ostensible strangeness of these three Italian authors is diminished when their writing is considered within the framework of modernism, a label traditionally avoided by the Italian critical establishment. Indeed, within a modernism preoccupied with human embodiment, these Italian literary giraffes find their kin. Here, the central nexus of body, subjectivity and style that informs and binds the writing of Svevo, Tozzi and Gadda resonates with a modernist renegotiation and revalorization of a human body whose dignity and epistemological authority have been contested by social and technological modernity.

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1351192612

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9781351192613