Contributor
Capozzi, Rocco, editor.
Imprint:Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2002.
Description1 online resource.
Note:Sibilla Aleramo (Rina Pierangeli Faccio)(1876-1960) -- Corrado Alvaro (1895-1956) -- Riccardo Bacchelli (1891-1985) -- Romano Bilenchi (1909-1989) -- Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960) -- Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882-1952) -- Vitaliano Brancati (1907-1954) -- Giovanni Comisso (1895-1969) -- Alba De Cespedes (1911-1997) -- Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) -- Antonio Delfini (1907-1963) -- Amalia Guglielminetti (1881-1941) -- Piero Jahier (1884-1966) -- Francesco Jovine (1902-1950) -- Emilio Lussu (1890-1975) -- Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)(1898-1957) -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) -- Paola Masino (1908-1989) -- Marino Moretti (1885-1979) -- Aldo Palazzeschi (1885-1974) -- Giovanni Papini (1881-1956) -- Enrico Pea (1881-1958) -- Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) -- Alberto Savinio (1891-1952) -- Matilde Serao (1856-1927) -- Ignazio Silone (Secondino Tranquilli)(1900-1978) -- Scipio Slataper (1888-1915) -- Ardengo Soffici (1879-1964) -- Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)(1861-1928) -- Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920) -- Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).
Note:Essays on Italian writers of prose discusses the rise of the middle class and the increase in literacy that fostered the growth and production of popular fiction, the emergence of the novel as a genre reflecting the diversity of Italian society, the impact of positivism, the founding of Futurism in 1909 and its challenge of established genres and the poetics of fragmentism. Discusses the impact various social and political changes had on writers during this period.
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