| Description |
1 online resource (325 pages) |
| Series |
Toronto Italian Studies |
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Toronto Italian studies.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction: Vincenzo Consolo and His Mediterranean Paradigm -- Part One. Odysseus's Journey: War and Exile -- Conversation between Vincenzo Consolo and Mario Nicolao -- Olive and Wild Olive -- The Ruin of Syracuse -- Algiers: Tradition and New Cultures -- But Is This Sarajevo or Assisi? -- The International Parliament of Writers: Journey to Israel/Palestine -- Report of Basilio Archita -- Men in the Sun -- Diary of Two Journeys to America -- Part Two. Sicilian Travels: Land, Cities, and Sea -- People and Land of Sulphur -- For a Bit of Grass on the Edge of the Feudal Estate -- Tuna Fishing -- Views of the Strait of Messina -- The Eruption of Mount Etna -- The Rebirth of the Val di Noto -- Part Three. Mediterranean Crossroads -- Sicily and Arab Culture -- Ibn Jubayr -- Palermo, Most Beautiful and Defeated -- The Bridge over the Channel of Sicily -- Porta Venezia -- Part Four. Writing as Poetic Memory -- A Day Like Any Other -- For a Metric of Memory -- The Languages of the Forest -- The Disappearance of the Fireflies -- The Smile, Twenty Years Later -- Notes on Sources of the Texts -- Selected Bibliography of Vincenzo Consolo's Works -- Selected Critical Bibliography -- Contributors |
| Summary |
Vincenzo Consolo is counted by many critics among the most significant voices in contemporary world literature. This volume makes available for the first in English an edited and annotated volume of Consolo's short stories, essays, and other writings pertaining to the diverse cultures and histories of Sicily and the Mediterranean basin |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Mediterranean Region -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083231
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Sicily (Italy) -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122232
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| Subject |
Italy -- Sicily
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Mediterranean Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lollini, Massimo
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| ISBN |
9781442684737 |
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1442684739 |
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