The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature
Series: Oxford Handbooks;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 147.50
-
70 468 Ft (67 112 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 7 047 Ft off)
- Discounted price 63 421 Ft (60 401 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
70 468 Ft
Availability
Not yet published.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 15 August 2026
- ISBN 9780197613955
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages984 pages
- Size 248x171 mm
- Weight 3 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 illustrations 0
Categories
Short description:
Bringing together distinguished scholars of Italian literature from major world universities, including the US, UK, Italy, France, Ireland, Canada, and Germany, The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature unsettles and reshapes the field of Italian literature by approaching Italian literature across its historical span through a variety of perspectives and methodologies, including nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism, culture, gender and ethnic studies, and ecocriticism.
MoreLong description:
Italian literature is among the most ancient and influential Western literatures. With its classics spanning from the Middle Ages to our contemporaneity, the impact of Italian literature worldwide has been and still is enormous - think of the influence of Dante in shaping Holocaust narratives and that of Italo Calvino on postmodern fiction. Italian literature remains a subject of enduring interest for academics, students, and general audiences. After the long and still resisting season of nationalisms, the time is ripe to rethink Italian literature against the background of a more and more globalized world.
The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature considers the development, status, and significance of Italian Literature in this globalized context. Organized into four parts (Institutions; Production; Controversies; and Icons), this Handbook approaches Italian literature across its historical span through a variety of perspectives and methodologies, including nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism, culture, gender and ethnic studies, and ecocriticism, with constant and careful attention to the forms and contents of literary practices and discourses. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive survey of Italian literature to date, ranging broadly from Dante's times to the contemporary world bestselling phenomenon of Elena Ferrante. Italian literature emerges as a case in point for reorientating literary studies towards the experimentation of difference, permeability, and integration.
Bringing together distinguished scholars of Italian literature from major world universities, including the US, UK, Italy, France, Ireland, Canada, and Germany, these 54 chapters unsettle and reshape the field of Italian literature. This Handbook aims to inspire scholars and writers in Italian Studies to explore innovative conceptual frameworks and facilitate a comparative dialogue with scholars of other literary traditions around the world: an especially vital goal in our increasingly interconnected world.
Table of Contents:
1. Identity
1. Italy and Italianness
Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway, University of London / Università di Palermo)
2. The Question of the Language and the Languages of Literature
Helena Sanson (University of Cambridge)
3. The Myth of Dante
Catherine Keen (University College London)
4. The Myth of the Renaissance
Simon Gilson (University of Oxford)
5. Making the Italians: Rereading the Risorgimento
Gabriella Romani (Seton Hall University)
6. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Resistance
Guido Bonsaver (University of Oxford)
7. Beyond the National Paradigm: Transnational and Translational Approaches to Italian Literature
Charles Burdett (Durham University) and Loredana Polezzi (Stony Brook University)
8. The Matter of Race: Race Thinking, Racism, and the Construction of 'Italianness'
Silvana Patriarca (Fordham University)
9. Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Decolonizing Approach to Italian Culture and Society
Caterina Romeo (Università di Roma "La Sapienza")
10. Women Writers and the "Male" Canon
Jane Tylus (Yale University)
11. Queer(ing) Italy: Perspectives, Genealogies, Relationality
Charlotte Ross (University of Oxford)
12. Italian Thought
Lorenzo Fabbri (University of Minnesota)
13. Italian Lit and World Lit
Thomas Harrison (UCLA)
14. Community-Making in Contemporary Italian Poetry
Adele Bardazzi (Utrecht University)
15. Writing Italian Prose Today
Edda Goodrich (Writer)
2. Production and Transmission
16. Plurilingualism: The Impact of Latin, the Role of Dialects, and Experimental Languages
Franco Pierno (University of Toronto)
17. The Invention of the Sonnet
Federica Pich (Università di Trento)
18. Novella and Racconto: the Italian Short Story
Gabriele Pedullà (Università Roma Tre)
19. Revising Models in Times of Transition: The Genres of Commentary and Dialogue
Tatiana Crivelli (University of Zurich)
20. Petrarchism and Petrarchist Community
Virginia Cox (University of Cambridge)
21. Orality and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte
Robert Henke (Washington University in St. Louis)
22. Italian Literature and the Academies
Jane Everson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
23. Histories of Italian Literature
Matteo Di Gesù (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
24. Sites of Literary Memory
Paolo Bartoloni and Michela Dainetti (University of Galway)
25. Print Culture and the Making of Italian Literature
Brian Richardson (University of Leeds)
26. Digital Editing
Paola Italia (Università di Bologna)
27. Literary Objects
Federica Pedriali (University of Edinburgh)
3. Controversies and Intersections
28. The Pedant Within: Making the Italian Intellectual Tradition
Rocco Rubini (University of Chicago)
29. Catholicism and Secularism
Erminia Ardissino (Università di Torino)
30. "A sea without floor or shore": the literary Baroque in Italy
Jon Snyder (UC Santa Barbara)
31. Body and Soul in Italian Romanticism: Alessandro Manzoni's Christian Political Economy
Joseph Luzzi (Bard College)
32. The Italian Novel
Clotilde Bertoni (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
33. Modernism (Pirandello, Svevo, Gadda)
Laura Wittman (Stanford University)
34. Lyric Machines: The Afterlives of F. T. Marinetti's and Nanni Balestrini's Avant-Garde Poetry
Gian Maria Annovi (USC Dornsife)
35. Literature and Science in Modern Italy
Pier Paolo Antonello (University of Cambridge)
36. Literature and the Visual: from Manzoni's The Betrothed to Banti's Artemisia (via Caravaggio)
Daniela Brogi (Università per Stranieri di Siena)
37. Early Modern Intersections between Music and Poetry
Francesco Ciabattoni (Georgetown University)
38. The Place of Theatre
Patricia Gaborik (Independent Scholar)
39. Intermedial Literature: From Cinema through Television to the Internet
Clodagh Brook (Trinity College Dublin)
40. Children's Literature and its Readers in a Globalizing Italy
Maria Truglio (Penn State)
41. The Dangerous Belpaese: Literature and Ecology in Modern Italy
Marco Malvestio (Università degli Studi di Padova/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
4. Icons
42. The Networks of Dante's Divine Comedy
Jennifer Rushworth (University College London)
43. 'Cosa bella mortal passa e non dura': Petrarchan Metamorphoses (Tasso, Shakespeare, Sor Juana, and Khalvati)
Manuele Gragnolati (University of Paris-Sorbonne) and Francesca Southerdern (University of Oxford)
44. The Whole Book: Eroticism and Censorship in Boccaccio's Decameron
Kristina Olson (George Mason University)
45. Humanism and Renaissance
Bernhard Huss (Freie Universität Berlin)
46. Icons in Time: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Chivalric Literature through the Ages
Ita Mac Carthy (Durham University)
47. Italian Opera
Jessica Peritz (Yale University)
48. Bringing Italy into Modernity: F. T. Marinetti, Futurism and the Invention of the Avant-Garde
Luca Somigli (University of Toronto)
49. If This is a Man: Primo Levi and Holocaust Literature
Niccolò Scaffai (Università degli Studi di Siena)
50. 1968 Across Borders
Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge)
51. Italy's Nobel Laureates: Carducci, Deledda, Pirandello, Quasimodo, Montale, Fo
Michael Subialka (UC Davis)
52. Italian Crime Fiction
Stefano Serafini (Independent Scholar)
53. Undoing Italy with Ferrante, Sapienza, Scego, and Lahiri: Transanational Approaches to Contemporary Italian Literature
Alberica Bazzoni (Università degli Studi di Siena and University of Oxford)
54. Meetings with Remarkable Italians
Ian Thomson (Writer/University of East Anglia)
