The Italian Short Story Through the Centuries : The Met(a)morphoses of the Novella.

The Italian Short Story Through the Centuries : The Met(a)morphoses of the Novella.

1st ed.

9781527521186

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

©2018.

English

1 online resource (225 pages).

PQ4177 .C36 2018

853.109

This collection of thirteen essays brings together Italian and American scholars to present a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese. Throughout the book, the contributors carefully and intentionally unpack and explain the development of the short story genre and demonstrate the breadth of themes - cultural, historical and linguistic - detailed in these narratives. Dedicated to a genre "devoted to lightness and flexibility, as well as quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity," this collection paints a careful and exacting picture of an important part of both Italian and literary history.

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