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Writing Colonisation : Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian L...

Writing Colonisation : Violence, Landscape, and the Act...

Writing Colonisation : Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian L...

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Writing Colonisation : Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature / Sabina Sestigiani.

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Full title

Writing Colonisation : Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature / Sabina Sestigiani.

Publisher

New York : Peter Lang, [2014]

New York Peter Lang, [2014]

Date

[2014]

Call Numbers

H 2015/3116

Record Identifier

74VK7Lav0KJy

MMS ID

991022832309702626

Language

English

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Physical content

viii, 254 pages ; 23 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- ch. One Landscape -- 1.Definition of landscape: framing the world -- 2.Mysterious and unknown landscape -- 3.Utopia of no-place -- 4.Terror and paranoia about place -- 5.The sublime -- ch. Two The Frontier That Frames the Desert: Dino Buzzati's II deserto...

Contents note continued: 4.Beyond the river of silence -- ch. Six "An Angelic Rape:" Guido Ceronetti's Difesa delta tuna e altri argomenti di miseria terrestre -- 1.Guido Ceronetti and the moon -- 2.An ambiguous oracle: the Bible and the dominion over the universe -- 3.The first naming: a mesmeric c...

Contents note continued: 2.Saint or whore? The interpretation that kills -- 3.The mouthpiece of God in the desert -- 4.Christianity, the Tao and the land on its own terms.

Publication information

Publisher

New York : Peter Lang, [2014]

New York Peter Lang, [2014]

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

[2014]

[2014]

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Full title

Writing Colonisation : Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature / Sabina Sestigiani.

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General note

Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; Vol. 220.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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©2014.

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H 2015/3116

Record Identifier

74VK7Lav0KJy

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ISBN

9781433123986 (hardcover : alk. paper)

DDC

820.9/994

MMS ID

991022832309702626

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