My Karst and My City and Other Essays

My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
"This Little Corner of Europe": Slataper's Reflections on and around Trieste's Cultural and National Identity
Elena Coda
A Note on the Texts and Their Translations
Nicholas Benson and Elena Coda
1. My Karst and My City
2. From Political Writings: Letters on Trieste
Trieste Has No Cultural Traditions
The Life of the Spirit
3. From Literary and Critical Writings
To Young Italian Intellectuals
Futurism
Crepuscular Confusion
4. From Ibsen
5. From Political Writings
Irredentism Today
The National and Political Future of Trieste
National Rights Are Affirmed with War
6. From Letters to Three Women Friends
To Elody (Firenze, 6 June 1912)
To Gigetta (Firenze, 8 February 1912)
To Gigetta (23 November 1915)
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Scipio Slataper (1888–1915) was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste.

Zusammenfassung

My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Scipio Slataper
• Mitarbeit: Elena Coda (Herausgeber), Nicholas Benson (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781487508227
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0822-7
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library; Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Libra
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft