Research Catalog

Title

Digression : a narrative strategy in the Italian novel / Olivia Santovetti.

Author

Santovetti, Olivia.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2007.

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Description

260 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume examines the workings of digression in the novels of five major Italian authors - Manzoni, Dossi, Pirandello, Gadda and Calvino - from the birth of the modern novel in the early 19th century to the era of postmodernist experimentation.

Series Statement

Italian modernities ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Italian modernities ; v. 1.

Subject

• Calvino, Italo 1923-1985
• Gadda, Carlo Emilio 1893-1973
• Manzoni, Alessandro 1785-1873
• Pirandello, Luigi 1867-1936
• Pisani Dossi, Alberto 1849-1910
• Pirandello, Luigi. > Digression
• Gadda, Carlo Emilio. > Digression
• Manzoni, Alessandro > Digression
• Pisani Dossi, Alberto > Digression
• Calvino, Italo > Digression
• Geschichte 1827-1979
• 1800-1999
• Italian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Italian fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Digression (Rhetoric) in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Alessandro Manzoni and the Art of Digression -- 'Il lettore mutatosi in collaboratore': the Importance of the Reader in Dossi's Digressive Texts -- Digressive Art as Humerous Art? Luigi Pirandello's Uno, nessuno e centomila -- Ramified Plots: Carlo Emilio Gadda's Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana -- Italo Calvino and the Metamorphoses of the Plot -- Conclusion

ISBN

9783039105502 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 226304965
• SCSB-12380064

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library