{"product_id":"the-italian-literature-of-the-guido-bartolini-9783030631802","title":"The Italian Literature of the Axis War: Memories of Self-Absolution and the Quest for Responsibility","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the representation of the Axis War - the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 - in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology, which combines memory studies, historiography, thematic criticism, and narratology, this book explores the main topoi, themes, and masterplots of an extensive corpus of novels and memoirs to assess the contribution of literature to the reshaping of Italian memory and identity after the end of Fascism. By exploring the influence that public memory exercises on literary depictions and, in return, the contribution of literary texts to the formation and dissemination of a discourse about the past, the book examines to what extent Italian literature helped readers form an ethical awareness of the crimes committed by members of their national community during World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guido Bartolini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 303063180X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030631802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d","brand":"Guido Bartolini","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44127082774783,"sku":"9783030631802","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_72e20b43-c68e-4605-8338-ff4f67d97320.jpg?v=1687451766","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-italian-literature-of-the-guido-bartolini-9783030631802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}