Viscusi Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8242-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Italian/American Culture

Examines the forces that have shaped Italian American writing, from the novels of John Fante to the musings of Tony Soprano.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Viscusi, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Secrets of Italian American Writing
1. English as a Dialect of Italian
2. De vulgari eloquentia: Ordinary Eloquence in Italian America
3. Il caso della casa: Stories of Houses in Italian America
4. Immigrant Ambitions and American Literature
5. The Text in the Dust: Writing Italy across America
6. The Semiology of Semen: Questioning the Father
7. Circles of the Cyclopes: Concentric History
8. A Literature Considering Itself: The Allegory of Italian America
9. The Italian American Sign
10. The Imperial Sopranos
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Viscusi is Professor of English and Executive Officer at The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York. He is the author of many books, including Max Beerbohm, or, The Dandy Dante: Rereading with Mirrors and Astoria: A Novel, winner of a 1996 American Book Award.