Neorealism and the New Italy Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity |
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| Author:
| Milli Konewko, Simonetta |
| Series title: | Italian and Italian American Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-1-137-52416-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2016 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.