Approaches to teaching the works of Primo Levi / edited by Nicholas Patruno and Roberta Ricci.

Other author Patruno, Nicholas editor.
Other author Ricci, Roberta editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : The Modern Language Association of America, [2014]
Descriptionviii, 175 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesApproaches to teaching world literature, 1059-1133 ; 133
Approaches to teaching world literature 133. ^A223695
Contents Part One: Materials. Editions. Editions in Italian ; Anthologies ; Translations -- The instructor's library. Reference works ; Historical and literary studies -- Aids to teaching. Films and music ; Internet resources -- Part Two: Approaches. Introduction -- Testimony, Autobiography, and the Holocaust. Levi and the question of style: the challenge of teaching the Holocaust / Nancy Harrowitz ; "What would I have done?": teaching The drowned and the saved to confront moral ambiguity / Jonathan Druker ; Poetry and testimony in Levi / Massimao Lollini ; Levi's "personaggi ambigeni" and the negotiation of autobiography and memory / Nicholas Patruno ; The complexity of Levi: approaching Levi through his interviews, articles, and short essays / Massimo Giuliani -- Language, Language Instruction, and Translation. At loggerheads with Lager jargon: the untranslatable in Levi / Pietro Frassica ; Teaching Levi in an advanced language course / Letizia Modena ; Translation matters: Levi, translation, and Holocaust testimony / Lina Insana -- Teaching Individual Works. $t Adventures in interdisciplinarity: teaching The periodic table / Millicent Marcus ; The humanity of the elements: an interpretation of Levi's The periodic table / Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen ; The writing of history in Levi's and Francesco Rosi's La tregua / Gaetana Marrone ; If not now, when?: a novel of reconciliation and becoming / Risa Sodi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2014020776
ISBN9781603291477 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1603291474 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781603291484 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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