Italian novels of peasant crisis, 1930-1950 : bonfires in the night / Brian Moloney.

Author/creator Moloney, Brian
Format Book
Publication InfoDublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, ©2005.
Description256 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Italian fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Political fiction, Italian--History and criticism.
Peasants in literature.
Rural conditions in literature.
Italy--In literature.

Contents Bonfires in the night -- Italian novels of peasant crisis -- The problem of the south -- Fascist agricultural policy: ruralism -- Literary images of rural contentment -- Fontamara: the novelist and the text -- Fontamara and rural society in crisis -- Fontamara and 'la lotta del Fucino' -- Ignazio Silone and Comrade Jesus -- Carlo Levi: a turin intellectual and the problem of the south -- Gentry and peasants in Levi's Gagliano -- Levi and the problem of the north -- Signora Ava and the Risorgimento as peasant crisis -- Le terre del Sacramento and the occupation of the land -- Pavese as historian: La luna e i falò -- New orientalisms for old?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234-247) and index.
LCCN 2006295653
ISBN185182880X (hbk.)
ISBN9781851828807 (hbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PQ4174 .M65 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold