Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature The Denatured Wild
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Pasquale Verdicchio is director of the Italian Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.This collection of eight essays is a welcome and important addition to the growing body of ecocritical scholarship on Italian land and literature.
- Patrick Barron, University of Massachusetts, Boston,
From TV series to Italo Calvino, from children literature to toxic contamination Pasquale Verdicchio has gathered an astonishing collection of essays which contributes magisterially to both Italian ecocriticism and the discipline at large. Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild is the essential companion to any exploration into the Italian material and intellectual landscape.
- Marco Armiero, Icrea Research Professor, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain,
If ecocriticism is the attempt to shape new vocabularies for an age of environmental crises, this collection, masterfully conceived and edited by Pasquale Verdicchio, invites us to think Italy as a mobile reality beyond ecological clichés, whether of “Great Beauty” or irredeemable decadence. Encompassing a rich array of subjects, genres, and voices, Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Literature and Culture:The Denatured Wild tells us of a country that, in spite of its cultural ambivalences and political contradictions, teems with ecological creativity and visions of future. If there is a book with which anyone studying Italian ecocriticism should start, this is the one.
- Serenella Iovino, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Turin, Italy,
Introduction. Pasquale Verdicchio
Ch. 1 The Wisdom Of The Hand And The Memory Of A Mediterranean More Than
Human Humanism. Massimo Lollini
Ch. 2 The Hybrid “Biocitizen” In Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo Or The Seasons In The
City. Adele Sanna
Ch. 3 Italian Woods Between Environmentalism And Children’s Literature
In Dino Buzzati’s Il Segreto Del Bosco Vecchio. Viola Ardeni
Ch. 4 The Cervi Family: A Peasant Story. Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan
Ch. 5 A House In Flames: Environmental Ethics In The Writing Of Sebastiano Vassalli.
Meriel Tulante
Ch. 6 Il Bosco Degli Urogalli. A Lieu De Mémoire. Stefania Nedderman
Ch. 7 The Environmental Aesthetics Of Sabina Guzzanti’s Le Ragione Dell’aragosta.
Marguerite Waller
Ch. 8 Toxic Disorder And Civic Possibility: Viewing The Land Of Fires From The
Phlegraean Fields. Pasquale Verdicchio
Ecocritical Theory and Practice highlights innovative scholarship at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment, seeking to foster an ongoing dialogue between academics and environmental activists. Works that explore environmental issues through literatures, oral traditions, and cultural/media practices around the world are welcome. The series features books by established ecocritics that examine the intersection of theory and practice, including both monographs and edited volumes. Proposals are invited in the range of topics covered by ecocriticism, including but not limited to works informed by cross-cultural and transnational approaches; postcolonial studies; ecofeminism; ecospirituality, ecotheology, and religious studies; film/media and visual cultural studies; environmental aesthetics and arts; ecopoetics; and animal studies.
Series Editor: Douglas Vakoch
Advisory Board: Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir (Iceland), Sinan Akilli (Turkey), Zélia Bora (Brazil), Nicolás Campisi (USA), Chan Kit-sze Amy (Hong Kong), Chia-Ju Chang (USA), Michelle Deininger (Wales), Nicole Dittmer (USA), Melanie Ruth Duckworth (Norway), Jonathan Elmore (USA), Lenka Filipova (Germany), Christina Holmes (USA), Peter I-min Huang (Taiwan), Serenella Iovino (USA), Özlem Karadag (Turkey), Katarina Leppänen (Sweden), Keitaro Morita (Japan), Anupama Nayar C V (India), Serpil Oppermann (Turkey), John Charles Ryan (Australia), Joshua Schuster (Canada), Murali Sivaramakrishnan (India), Scott Slovic (USA), David Taylor (USA), Rebekah Taylor-Wiseman (USA)