Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919 : Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919.
Title:
Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919 : Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919.
Author:
Virga, Anita.
ISBN:
9781443866705
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Edition:
1st ed.
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1 online resource (302 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON THE COVER IMAGE -- INTRODUCTION - A CULTURE OF DEATH -- CHAPTER ONE - THE "CIVIL SUICIDE" OF FRANCESCO LOMONACO -- CHAPTER TWO - THE LIFE AND TRAGIC EPILOGUE OF PATRIOT FRANCESCO BENEDETI -- CHAPTER THREE - THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE IN GIACOMO LEOPARDI -- CHAPTER FOUR - SUICIDI DI PRIMO OTTOCENTO -- CHAPTER FIVE - EMILIO PRAGA'S SUICIDIO -- CHAPTER SIX - LA TEMATICA DEL SUICIDIO NELLA SCAPIGLIATURA. -- CHAPTER SEVEN - REPRESENTATIONS OF SUICIDE IN ITALIAN NARRATIVES FROM THE 1860S TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- CHAPTER EIGHT - IN PLAIN SIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE - "THEN I SHALL SLEEP." -- CHAPTER TEN - EGOISTIC AND ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE IN THE WRITINGS OF F.T. MARINETTI PRE- AND POST-FUTURISM -- CHAPTER ELEVEN - MICHELSTAEDTER THE POET THROUGH MONTALE -- CHAPTER TWELVE - HARAKIRI ALL'ITALIANA -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ANTONIA POZZI -- CONTRIBUTORS.
Abstract:
The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely trea...
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