Author: Giovanni VergaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Mastro-Don Gesualdo
Author: Giovanni VergaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520325265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Mastro-don Gesualdo, by Giovanni Verga
Author: Giovanni VergaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Mastro-don Gesualdo
Author: Giovanni VergaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520035980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
On the face of things, Mastro Don Gesualdo is a success. Born a peasant but a man' with an eye for everything going', he becomes one of the richest men in Sicily, marrying an aristocrat with his daughter destined, in time, to wed a duke. But Gesualdo falls foul of the rigid class structure of mid-19th century Sicily. His title Mastro Don, 'Worker Gentleman', is ironic in itself. Peasants and gentry alike resent his extraordinary success. And when the pattern of society is threatened by revolt, Gesualdo is the rebels' first target.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
Author: Gaetana MarronePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1579583903
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
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The House by the Medlar Tree
Author: Giovanni VergaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520048461
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Giovanni Verga is one of the masters of European literature, and his novel The House by the Medlar Tree is a great work. I am very happy to see it reprinted and I hope that many people will read it."--Iriving Howe
Experimental Fictions
Author: Tullio PaganoPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637562
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This volume provides the first comprehensive comparative study of two major representatives of naturalism: Emile Zola and the Italian "verist" novelist, Giovanni Verga. The development of Verga's narrative, from the early romantic novels to his mature verist fiction, is to be understood in connection with French Naturalism, and Zola in particular. The author thus challenges the canonical interpretation of Verga's fiction (dominant among Italian critics) which sees it in antithetical opposition to Zola's.
Little Novels of Sicily
Author: Giovanni VergaPublisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 1581952414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
First Published in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into his stories almost in midbreath, and tells them with a stark economy of words. There's something dark and tightly coiled at the heart of each story, an ironic, bitter resolution that is belied by the deceptive simplicity of Verga's prose, and Verga strikes just when the reader's not expecting it. Translator D. H. Lawrence surely found echoes of his own upbringing in Verga's sketches of Sicilian life: the class struggle between property owners and tenants, the relationship between men and the land, and the unsentimental, sometimes startlingly lyric evocation of the landscape. Just as Lawrence veers between loving and despising the industrial North and its people, so too Verga shifts between affection for and ironic detachment from the superstitious, uneducated, downtrodden working poor of Sicily. If Verga reserves pity for anyone or anything, it is the children and the animals, but he doesn't spare them. In his experience, it is the innocents who suffer first and last and always.
Mastro-don Gesualdo
Author: Giovanni VergaFiguring Women
Author: Susan AmatangeloPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640173
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"The fact that Verga's most rebellious heroines die violently at the hands of men has led to accusations of misogyny or, at the very least, of excessive social and artistic conventionality. Yet it is precisely Verga's awareness of convention that enriches his portrayal of women. The reaction of his female characters to social custom at a particular moment in their lives defines them as individuals. With rare insight, Verga depicts the female experience as both personal and universal, showing that different kinds of women are linked by the experience of being female in a male-centered culture. At the same time, however, he reveals the isolation in which women grow and live, separated from men and other women by social and cultural barriers."--BOOK JACKET.
A D.H. Lawrence Handbook
Author: Keith SagarPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007804
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Includes information on author and playwright D.H. Lawrence such as a chronology of his life, a chronology of his writings, a checklist of his reading, calendar and maps of his travel, bibliography, filmography, and discography.