Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature (eBook)

Tullio Pagano is professor of Italian studies at Dickinson College.

ContentsPREFACE Returning to Val LentroINTRODUCTION. Landscape between Place, Memory and Artistic Representation. Why Landscape? Contrasting Views of LandscapeThe Ambivalent Nature of Landscape Rosario Assunto’s Philosophy of Landscape From the Opaque: Massimo Quaini and Italo Calvino’s Liguria Between Local and GlobalCHAPTER ONE. In the Beginning There Was the Road: Giuseppe Ruffini and the Discovery of the Italian Riviera. The “Casual” Discovery of a Vernacular LandscapeCHAPTER TWO. Lost in the City; Camillo Sbarbaro’s Search for Landscape. Camillo Sbarbaro between the Country and the City A Glimpse of Paradise? Pianissimo: Reification and the Need for LandscapeThe Recurring Spell of the City Back to Hell: The Landscape in Trucioli The Great War and Sbarbaro’s return to Nature Last “Shavings” of Ligurian LandscapeCHAPTER THREE. Landscape as Enigma: Eugenio Montale’s Liguria.The Polyvalence of Montale’s OrtoLooking at the Sea: Montale’s Mediterranean Suspended between Land and Sea Dreams of an “Ancient Boy” Looking at landscape (Through a Window)The Impossible Return to the PastCHAPTER FOUR. Giorgio Caproni and the End of LandscapeDawns, Sunsets and the World’s ScenarioDiscovering the Dark Side of Ligurian Landscape Away from Val Trebbia: Caproni’s DetourThe Reinterpretation of Aeneas’ MythThe End of LandscapeCHAPTER FIVE. Italo Calvino between Two ContinentsThe Ligurian Diaspora and its Consequences A Son’s Master Looks at Landscape Growing up between Two Continents Two Different Ways of Looking at Landscape The Real Estate Plunge and the Destruction of Landscape CHAPTER SIX. Francesco Biamonti and the Ruins of LandscapeMediterranean Ruins Walking through a Desolate LandscapeWriting between Two WorldsLandscape with(out) ShepherdsLiguria as Mediterranean CrossroadBetween Remorse and CompensationCHAPTER SEVEN. Annie Hawes and the Rediscovery of the Ligurian LandscapeEPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE AUTHOR