Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Fascist Italy - Mussolini, Gadda, Vittorini

In this book, Chiara Ferrari interrogates how the rhetoric of sacrifice was used by the Italian fascist regime throughout the interwar years to support its totalitarian project and its vision of an all-encompassing bond between the people and the state.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Discursive Ritual and Sacrificial Presentation: The Rhetoric of Crisis and Resolution in Fascist Italy
2. Sacrificial Turns and Their Rhetorical Echoes
3. Gadda’s Sacrificial Topographies
4. The Redemption of Vittorini’s New Man

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Chiara Ferrari is an assistant professor in the Department of Italian Studies at New York University.

Summary

In this book, Chiara Ferrari interrogates how the rhetoric of sacrifice was used by the Italian fascist regime throughout the interwar years to support its totalitarian project and its vision of an all-encompassing bond between the people and the state.

Product details

• Authors: Chiara Ferrari
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9781442613935
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1393-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies; Toronto Italian Studies (Paper; Toronto Italian Studies; Toronto Italian Studies (Paper
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies