![]() | Italian Literary Icons Subjects: Italian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Addresses essays lectures; Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Addresses essays lectures; Criticism -- Addresses essays lectures; Semiotics and literature -- A; Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin explores a series of challenges posited for literary criticism by the success of semiotics, testing theoretical concepts not so much on theoretical grounds as in their practical application to literary texts from the high Romantic lyric of Ugo Foscolo to the postmodern, cosmicomic tales of Italo Calvino. |
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