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Contesting the Monument: The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel: No. 10 The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel
By Ruth Glynn
Copyright 2005
156 Pages
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Routledge
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In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian historical novel provided an unrivalled number of best sellers and publishing 'phenomena'. The success of the genre is closely related to a more general interest in revisiting the past in the light of a changed understanding of the nature, or philosophy, of history. This study aims to explore the particularly marked increase in the... Read more
Introduction 1 Theorizing the Historical Novel 2 From Illusionism to Anti-Illusionism 3 II Consiglio d ’Egitto, Leonardo Sciascia 4 II sorriso del Vignoto marinaio, Vincenzo Consolo 5 La chimera, Sebastiano Vassalli 6. II nome della rosa, Umberto Eco 7 Il fuoco greco, Luigi Malerba, Afterword
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Ruth Glynn
