The Invention of Modern Italian Literature – Strategies of Creative Imagination

The Invention of Modern Italian LiteratureStrategies of Creative Imagination\nAuthor(s): Gino Tellini\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802091857, 978-0802091857\nSynopsis\nDespite its undeniable impact on modern literature, there are very few comprehensive studies of literary works produced in Italy from the end of the eighteenth- to the twentieth century. The Invention of Modern Italian Literature examines the methods of select Italian writers and considers their impact on the literary world. Touching upon some of the most prominent and influential writers in Italy over the last three hundred years, Gino Tellini looks at the unique creative processes of each, as well as at the dominant trends that have come to characterize modern Italian literature.\n\nExamining different genres such as autobiography, letters, poetry, and the novel, this study stresses the ways in which Italian writers achieved a hy.