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oapen-20.500.12657-587912022-10-15T03:21:31Z Ecocriticism and Italy Iovino, Serenella Literature: history and criticism Literary theory bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016 Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016 This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Written by one of Europe’s leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining cases where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, pollution and redemption, the book argues that literature, art and criticism are able to transform the unexpressed voices of these suffering worlds into stories of resistance and practices of liberation. 2022-10-14T14:53:52Z 2022-10-14T14:53:52Z 2016 book ONIX_20221014_9781472571670_122 9781472571670 9781472571663 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58791 eng Environmental Cultures application/pdf n/a 9781472571663.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781474219488 10.5040/9781474219488 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781472571670 9781472571663 Bloomsbury Academic 208 London open access
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Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016 Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016 This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Written by one of Europe’s leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining cases where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, pollution and redemption, the book argues that literature, art and criticism are able to transform the unexpressed voices of these suffering worlds into stories of resistance and practices of liberation.
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