{"product_id":"italian-literature-in-the-nuclear-maria-anna-mariani-9780192868855","title":"Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander","description":"\u003cem\u003eItalian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander\u003c\/em\u003e explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. Host to hundreds of American atomic weapons while lacking a nuclear arsenal of its own, Italy's status was an ambiguous one: that of an unwilling--and in many ways passive--accomplice. Inspired by Seamus Heaney's dictum that \"there is no such thing as innocent by-standing,\" the book frames Italy's fraught mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to rethink the role of the sidelined intellectual in the face of mass extinction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eItalian Literature in the Nuclear Age\u003c\/em\u003e includes discrete chapters on the major Italian intellectuals of the time: Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Leonardo Sciascia. Conscious of their own political marginalization, these authors address the atomic question through a wide range of experimental forms, approaching the nearly unthinkable theme in allusive and oblique ways. Often dismissed as disengaged, inconsistent, or merely playful, these works demand instead a political reading capable of recognizing their confrontation with the paradoxes of the nuclear age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Anna Mariani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192868853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192868855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.77h x 5.81w x 0.75d","brand":"Maria Anna Mariani","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069583290623,"sku":"9780192868855","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_157f3aa9-e48d-4afe-9318-65be66bf017a.jpg?v=1685425461","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/italian-literature-in-the-nuclear-maria-anna-mariani-9780192868855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}