The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad
ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the
Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era.
Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of
the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism,
postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors
are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the United
States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of
the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside
and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and
Italo Calvino. This is a unique examination of the Italian Novel,
and will prove invaluable to students and specialists alike.
Readers will gain a keen sense of the vitality of the Italian novel
throughout its history and a clear picture of the debates and
criticism that have surrounded its development.
　　? Covers a wide range of topics in a clear and comprehensive way
? The volume is well supported by a detailed chronology and
bibliography ? Contributions are provided by acknowledged
specialists on Italian literature

　　Chronology; Introduction; 1. The belated development of a
theory of the novel in Italian literary culture Remo Cesarini and
Pierluigi Pellini; 2. The forms of long prose fiction in late
medieval and early modern Italian literature Albert N. Mancini; 3.
Alessandro Manzoni and developments in the historical novel Olga
Ragusa; 4. Literary realism in Italy: Verga, Capuana, and verismo
Giovanni Carsaniga; 5. Popular fiction between Italian unification
and world war I Nicolas J. Perella; 6. The foundations of Italian
modernism: Pirandello Svevo, Gadda Robert Dombroski; 7. Neorealist
narrative: experience and experiment Lucia Re; 8. Memory and
testimony in Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani JoAnn Cannon; 9. The
Italian novel in search of identity: history versus reality –
Lampedusa and Pasolini Manuela Bertone; 10. Feminist writing in the
twentieth century Sharon Wood; 11. Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco:
postmodern masters Peter Bondanella; 12. Literary cineastes: the
Italian novel and the cinema Rolando Caputo; 13. Frontier, exile,
and migration in the contemporary Italian novel Andrea Ciccarelli;
14. The new Italian novel Rocco Capozzi