Creative entanglements : Gadda and the baroque /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Dombroski, Robert S.
Imprint:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.
Description:1 online resource (x, 151 pages).
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
Subject:Gadda, Carlo Emilio, -- 1893-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Gadda, Carlo Emilio, -- 1893-1973 -- Critique et interprétation.
Gadda, Carlo Emilio, -- 1893-1973.
Gadda, Carlo Emilio.
Baroque literature -- Influence.
Italian literature -- 17th century -- Influence.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Das Barocke
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11286284
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ISBN:9781442673588
1442673583
9780802044907
0802044905
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148) and index.
Other form:Print version: Dombroski, Robert S. Creative entanglements. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1999 9780802044907
Review by Choice Review

Short but substantial and never less than thought-provoking, this book offers English-speaking readers one of their few possible points of entry into the critical debate surrounding Gadda (1893-1973), whom Dombroski (CUNY) rightly calls the "most original, intricate, and now most celebrated, contemporary Italian novelist." The author studies the quintessentially modernist Gadda as an exponent of a 20th-century baroque, understood not as limited to mere style but as encompassing a wide range of responses (aesthetic, psychological, ethical, linguistic, cultural, personal, even political) to the fragmented and elusive experience of contemporary reality. Engaging not only with Gadda's own notoriously "difficult" texts and their reception but also with baroque scholarship and the theories of such thinkers as Deleuze, Jameson, and Benjamin, Dombroski constructs a dense and demanding, but ultimately compelling, critical argument. Along with such other outstanding recent contributions as Albert Sbragia's Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Modern Macaronic (CH, Apr'97), Dombroski's book should help--at last--to earn this great writer's work some of the attention it deserves from readers in the English-speaking world. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. S. Botterill; University of California, Berkeley

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