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Author Iovino, Serenella, 1971- author.

Title Ecocriticism and Italy : ecology, resistance, and liberation / Serenella Iovino.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (183 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Environmental cultures series
Environmental cultures series.
Summary Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016. Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016. Written by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining cases where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, pollution and redemption, the book argues that literature, art and criticism are able to transform the unexpressed voices of these suffering worlds into stories of resistance and practices of liberation.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-174).
Contents Bodies of Naples: a journey in the landscapes of porosity -- Cognitive justice and the truth of biology: death (and life) in Venice -- Three earthquakes: wounds, signs, and resisting arts in Belice, Irpinia, and L'Aquila -- Slow: Piedmont's stories of landscapes, resistance, and liberation.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Italy -- Environmental conditions.
Italy.
Environmental conditions.
Ecology -- Italy.
Ecology.
Pollution -- Italy.
Pollution.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Iovino, Serenella, 1971- Ecocriticism and Italy. London : Bloomsbury, 2016 9781472571656 (OCoLC)933284445
ISBN 9781472571663 (electronic book)
1472571665 (electronic book)
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9781472571656 (hardback)
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1472571673 (epub)
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