Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945

Author:   Caterina Bernardini
Publisher:   University of Iowa Press
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9781609387549


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   30 July 2021
Format:   Paperback

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Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945


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Author:   Caterina Bernardini
Publisher:   University of Iowa Press
Imprint:   University of Iowa Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781609387549


ISBN 10:   1609387546
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   30 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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We have always known that Italian writers took an intense interest in Walt Whitman, but Caterina Bernardini's exciting study now fully opens us up to the astonishing degree to which Italy is Whitmanland. Whitman's reception in Italy, up to the breakdown of fascism in 1945, is not only a revealing story in itself but it also offers a history of transatlantic modernism in the context of the political and cultural distortions of the twentieth century. Bernardini's book is a case study demonstrating Whitman's place in Goethe's ever-relevant formula of Weltliteratur. - Walter Gru nzweig, author, Constructing the German Walt Whitman A spirited look at the intercultural conversations sparked by Whitman in Italy. Familiar names like Gabriele D'Annunzio and Cesare Pavese are joined by socialist Ada Negri and feminist Sibilla Aleramo, giving us a vibrant new map of Italian writings. Translation and reinvention transform the very meaning of 'literature' itself. - Wai Chee Dimock, author, Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival


"We have always known that Italian writers took an intense interest in Walt Whitman, but Caterina Bernardini's exciting study now fully opens us up to the astonishing degree to which Italy is Whitmanland. Whitman's reception in Italy, up to the breakdown of fascism in 1945, is not only a revealing story in itself but it also offers a history of transatlantic modernism in the context of the political and cultural distortions of the twentieth century. Bernardini's book is a case study demonstrating Whitman's place in Goethe's ever-relevant formula of Weltliteratur."" - Walter Grünzweig, author, Constructing the German Walt Whitman ""A spirited look at the intercultural conversations sparked by Whitman in Italy. Familiar names like Gabriele D'Annunzio and Cesare Pavese are joined by socialist Ada Negri and feminist Sibilla Aleramo, giving us a vibrant new map of Italian writings. Translation and reinvention transform the very meaning of 'literature' itself."" - Wai Chee Dimock, author, Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival"


A spirited look at the intercultural conversations sparked by Whitman in Italy. Familiar names like Gabriele D'Annunzio and Cesare Pavese are joined by socialist Ada Negri and feminist Sibilla Aleramo, giving us a vibrant new map of Italian writings. Translation and reinvention transform the very meaning of 'literature' itself. --Wai Chee Dimock, author, Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival We have always known that Italian writers took an intense interest in Walt Whitman, but Caterina Bernardini's exciting study now fully opens us up to the astonishing degree to which Italy is Whitmanland. Whitman's reception in Italy, up to the breakdown of fascism in 1945, is not only a revealing story in itself but it also offers a history of transatlantic modernism in the context of the political and cultural distortions of the twentieth century. Bernardini's book is a case study demonstrating Whitman's place in Goethe's ever-relevant formula of Weltliteratur. --Walter Gru nzweig, author, Constructing the German Walt Whitman


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Caterina Bernardini is a lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and contributing editor for the online Walt Whitman Archive. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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