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- Author: Davide Messina
- Publisher: Troubador Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1836282974
- ISBN-13: 9781836282976
- Format: 12.9 x 19.8 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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This book makes a big narrative leap in time, media and imagination. Starting from an iconic film on the Italian-American mafia and its use of a classic Sicilian-Tuscan opera, it stages a fantasy of return to the school of poetry that flourished in medieval Sicily and marked the Italian poetic origins. This is a story within a story. It blurs the line between the inside and the outside, undoes clichés with classics, reads poetry with popular culture. This is not a book about the mafia and opera as such, but about a certain idea of Sicily that brings them together. The place that this idea holds in the popular imagination raises some crucial questions about Italian history and identity. Across a thousand years of cultural and colonial inventions of Sicily, from its American fantasy to its Arab legacy, from cinema to sonnet, this book reframes these questions for a concise and critical introduction to the origins of Italian poetry.
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- Author: Davide Messina
- Publisher: Troubador Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1836282974
- ISBN-13: 9781836282976
- Format: 12.9 x 19.8 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
This book makes a big narrative leap in time, media and imagination. Starting from an iconic film on the Italian-American mafia and its use of a classic Sicilian-Tuscan opera, it stages a fantasy of return to the school of poetry that flourished in medieval Sicily and marked the Italian poetic origins. This is a story within a story. It blurs the line between the inside and the outside, undoes clichés with classics, reads poetry with popular culture. This is not a book about the mafia and opera as such, but about a certain idea of Sicily that brings them together. The place that this idea holds in the popular imagination raises some crucial questions about Italian history and identity. Across a thousand years of cultural and colonial inventions of Sicily, from its American fantasy to its Arab legacy, from cinema to sonnet, this book reframes these questions for a concise and critical introduction to the origins of Italian poetry.
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