Italy: The Enduring Culture - Softcover
"Italy: The Enduring Culture" offers an insightful and fascinating look at the history, culture and society of this bewitching country. Jonathan White charts the formation of modern Italy, from the rapid rise of powerful merchant cities in Dante's time to millennial change in the present technological age, exploring how modern culture and society in Italy have emerged from earlier configurations. White looks specifically at how Italy has incorporated and continually represents its past. He reveals the ambivalence of the city of Venice as a living myth, its water-bound houses functioning alternately in the collective mind as figures of decadence and death and as signs of life, fulfilment and the birth of the future. The book explores the age-old culture of death in Sicily in the light of Mafia killings of public figures and aspects of Italian society and culture that include class, economics, politics, opera and literature. It also considers, in the context of Italian emigration, what qualities of "Italianness" survive in the espresso bars, luxury goods and musical culture of these far-flung Italian communities. Affordable, fascinating and fully-illustrated throughout, this is the ideal book for anyone interested in Italian history, society and culture.
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"It is the perfect book to give to a student who wants to know why we should study Italy today, and it will be appreciated by those who already know something about Italy's past. Peter Bondanella, Chairman and Distinguished Professor of West European Studies, Indiana University, USA"
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Jonathan White is Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex.
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- PublisherContinuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0826489427
- ISBN 13 9780826489425
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages346
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