Postmodern Ethics : The Re-appropriation of Committed Writing in the Works of Antonio Tabucchi and Leonardo Sciascia 1975-2005.
Title:
Postmodern Ethics : The Re-appropriation of Committed Writing in the Works of Antonio Tabucchi and Leonardo Sciascia 1975-2005.
Author:
Wren-Owens, Elizabeth.
ISBN:
9781443810777
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (218 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- PART II -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- PART III -- CHAPTER SIX -- PART IV -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- PART V -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Postmodern Ethics offers a new perspective on debates surrounding the role of the intellectual in Italian society, and provides an original reading of two important Italian contemporary writers, Leonardo Sciascia and Antonio Tabucchi. It examines the ways in which the two writers use literature to engage with their socio-political environment in a climate informed by the doubts and scepticism of postmodernism, after traditional forms of impegno had been abandoned. Postmodern Ethics explores w...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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