Lucente, Gregory L.
Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism: Italy & the United States
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xiii,193 pp. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ Contents: Recent Theory: Deconstruction, Marxism & Feminism in Current Theory: Representation & Totality; Critical Pluralism in the American and European Traditions: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Pluralist Interpretation; History with a Future (?): Marxist Criticism in the United States; "Could You Elaborate on That?" (Well Yes and No): The Use & Abuse of Gramsci in Said, Spivak & Recent Cultural Studies; The Historical Imagination: Vico, Hercules & the Lion: Figure & Ideology in the "Scienza nuova"; Hayden White's "The Content of the Form": A Vichian View; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Notes on Antonio Gramsci's Theory of Literature & Culture; Rationality & Myth in Pirandello's Later Works: Modernity, Contemporaneity & the Poetics of Historical Disillusionment; Literary Representation & Sociopolitical / Cultural Contexts in the Historical Novel: Morante, Faulkner, Vargas Llosa; Three Debates: "The Exercise of Silence": Reflections on the Controversy over Paul de Man; " Against Theory?" Yes and No; Weak Thought / Strong Thought: 'Il pensiero debole' & the Problem of Postmodernity.

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Keywords: Literary Criticism, Italian Literature, United States, Critical Theory, Antonio Gramsci, , , ,