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Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism traces several of the most contemporary trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect. Though the primary focusis on literary questions, attention is also given to the broader concerns of the creative force of culture and, when relevant, to economic, social, and political phenomena. Throughout, it aims to illuminate not only the forms of literary and critical discourse but also their underlying generative principles their ideologies. The book is in three parts. Part I studies recent theoretical trends, including deconstruction, Marxism, and feminism; critical pluralism; the history of Marxist critique; and the use of the thought of Antonio Gramsci in recent cultural studies. Part II discusses the views of Italian writers (principally Giambattista Vico and Gramsci) who have engaged the problems of the historical imagination; history and myth in Luigi Pirandello s last plays; and the depiction of social life in the historical novels of Elsa Morante, William Faulkner, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism
• Subtitle: Italy and the United States
• Author: Gregory L. Lucente
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9780804728294
• ISBN: 0804728291
• ID: 04716555
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 399 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 1997

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