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Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin explores a series of challenges posited for literary criticism by the success of semiotics, testing theoretical concepts not so much on theoretical grounds as in their practical application to literary texts from the high Romantic lyric of Ugo Foscolo to the postmodern, cosmicomic tales of Italo Calvino.

Originally published in 1985.

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Gian-Paolo Biasin

Summary

Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin explores a series of challenges posited for literary criticism by the success of semiotics, testing theoretical concepts not so much on theoretical grounds as in their practical application to literary texts from the high Romantic lyric of Ugo Foscolo to the postmod

Product details

• Authors: Gian-Paolo Biasin, Biasin Gian-Paolo
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691611761
• ISBN: 978-0-691-61176-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Italian, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000