Beyond the Margin: Readings in Italian AmericanaPaolo Giordano, Anthony Julian Tamburri Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1998 - 305 páginas This collection of essays gives a critical overview of Italian American literary and cultural studies. The essays deal with notions and/or characteristics of Italian American literature and culture in a general sense, essays devoted to specific writers, and essays on filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Brian DePalma, and Martin Scorsese, who have interpreted Italian American culture in their works. |
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Italian American Culturalism A Critique | 46 |
Divine Comedy Blues | 69 |
Reading Literature | 81 |
Emanuel Carnevalis great good bye | 83 |
John Fante The Saga of Arturo Bandini | 95 |
Blending Literary Discourses Helen Barolinis ItalianAmerican Narratives | 114 |
ExTending or Escaping Ethnicity Don DeLillo and ItalianAmerican Literature | 131 |
Reading Film | 167 |
The Image of Blacks in the Work of Coppola De Palma and Scorsese | 169 |
From Lapsed to Lost Scorseses Boy and Ferraras Man | 198 |
Further Readings | 223 |
Emigrants Expatriates and Exiles Italian Writing in the United States | 225 |
Rethinking ItalianAmerican Studies From the Hyphen to the Slash and Beyond | 243 |
Notes on Contributors | 284 |
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Página 27 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Página 38 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 31 - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.