Neorealism and the New Italy: Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity

ISBN-13: 9781137541321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 272 str.

Simonetta MILLI Konewko; Simonetta MILLI Konewko

Opis

Neorealism and the "New" Italy centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions. Simonetta Milli Konewko proposes that compassion as an emotion may be activated to unify certain individuals and communities and investigates the mechanisms that allowed compassion to operate during the postwar period. Aiming to produce a deeper understanding of the ways in which Italy is re-encoded and reconstructed, this book explores the formation of Italian identity and redefines neorealism as a topic of investigation.

Spis treści

Table of Contents  

Introduction 

Part I Neorealism: What Is and is Not

Chapter 1: The Italian Roots of Neorealism 

Chapter 2: Neorealism and Film

Chapter 3: Neorealism and Literature

Chapter 4: Emotions in Neorealism

Part II Compassion: What Is and Is Not

Chapter 5: The Nature of Compassion

Chapter 6: Compassion and Pity, Sympathy, and Empathy

Chapter 7: Occurrences of Compassion

Chapter 8: Rethinking Compassion in Light of Neorealism

Chapter 9: The Discourse of Compassion during Fascism

Part III Charting Landscapes of Compassion during World War II

Chapter 10: Compassion in Ginzburg’s Depictions of Family Relationships 

Chapter 11: Moravia’s Representation of Compassion

Chapter 12: Women, Compassion, and the Resistance Movement in L’Agnese va a morire

Chapter 13: Compassion and the Construction of Women’s Identity in Rome, Open City

Part IV Compassion and the Holocaust

Chapter 14: Compassion in Survival in Auschwitz

Chapter 15: Compassion in Smoke over Birkenau

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O autorze

Simonetta Milli Konewko is Associate Professor in the Department of French, Italian and Comparative Languages at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA. Her articles have appeared in Forum Italicum, Rivista di Studi Italiani, Holocaust and Modernity, Sinestesie, Journal of Literature and Art Studies, and Athens Journal of Humanities & Art.