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“federigo tozzi”

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  • Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature

    Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

    by Deborah Amberson ...
    "Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy's beautiful garden of literature. Gadda's self-characterization as exotic and even ungainly animal applies in equal measure to Italo Svevo (1861-1928) and Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), authors who, like Gadda, thwarted efforts at ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Tuscan Spaces

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  • Arduous Tasks

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  • Federico Fellini

    Painting in Film, Painting on Film

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  • The History of Futurism

    The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies

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  • Pasolini

    The Sacred Flesh

    by Stefania Benini ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
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  • A Cinema of Poetry

    Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film

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