Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian WritingJoseph Pivato Guernica Editions, 1991 - 257 strani This historic collection, the first of its kind, is devoted to the discussion of Italian-Canadian writers publishing in English, in French or in Italian. These critical essays include analyses of some important writing: F.G. Paci's Black Madonna, the poetry of Mary di Michele and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, the plays of Marco Micone, Gens du Silence and Addolorata, the novels of Maria Ardizzi and many other titles. The ten contributors make significant additions to the study of Canadian literature: D.C. Minni examines the short story; Alexandre Amprimoz and Sante Viselli consider Italian-Canadian poetry; Roberta Sciff-Zamaro analyses Black Madonna; Robert Billings fathoms di Michels's verse; Frank Paci considers the task of the novelist. Fulvio Caccia's essay on the literary languages of Quebec is controversial as are Filippo Salvatore's arguments on the writer and politics. Antonio D'Alfonso speculates on future developments among the more than one hundred Italian-Canadian writers. In addition to editing the collection, Joseph Pivato introduces the volume with a long essay on ethnic history and literary criticism in Canada, includes another essay on Italian-language writers and concludes with a detailed bibliography and an index. |
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Stran 27
... feel , that it is one of self - censorship on the part of the writer . This negative condition has been aggravated by the dominance of thematic criticism . The critical work of Sutherland and Atwood is implicity prescriptive and I ...
... feel , that it is one of self - censorship on the part of the writer . This negative condition has been aggravated by the dominance of thematic criticism . The critical work of Sutherland and Atwood is implicity prescriptive and I ...
Stran 41
... feel like those fatuous ancients who thought to enclose the bird with a wall . For life is so infinitely tangential . It flees touch like a ball of mercury flees the finger . And you find not its smallest feature in clear- outline , but ...
... feel like those fatuous ancients who thought to enclose the bird with a wall . For life is so infinitely tangential . It flees touch like a ball of mercury flees the finger . And you find not its smallest feature in clear- outline , but ...
Stran 44
... feeling that the material is relevant or that it will reach millions of people . And certainly not to make money , although we will take any that comes our way . But to feel a need at the roots of our being , a need that consumes us con ...
... feeling that the material is relevant or that it will reach millions of people . And certainly not to make money , although we will take any that comes our way . But to feel a need at the roots of our being , a need that consumes us con ...
Stran 46
... feeling inferior to both . The natural rhythms of the British and American consciousness cannot help but creep in . Both have a longer tradition to work from , both are more confident of themselves , both have very high standards ...
... feeling inferior to both . The natural rhythms of the British and American consciousness cannot help but creep in . Both have a longer tradition to work from , both are more confident of themselves , both have very high standards ...
Stran 49
... feel that the author is in sure control of things . - If we look at some of the tradition in Canadian lit- erature on immigrant themes , we see that there is usu- ally the creation of two worlds : the old and the new . Whether one is ...
... feel that the author is in sure control of things . - If we look at some of the tradition in Canadian lit- erature on immigrant themes , we see that there is usu- ally the creation of two worlds : the old and the new . Whether one is ...
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A Search for the Great Mother | 77 |
Contemporary Influences on the Poetry | 121 |
The Italian Writer and Language Fulvio Caccia | 153 |
Essentialism | 207 |
Notes on Contributors | 249 |
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Stran 43 - Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Stran 47 - Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
Stran 48 - To achieve this, the author must begin by luring us into the closed precinct that is his novel and then keep us there cut off from any possible retreat to the real space we left behind.
Stran 38 - And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
Stran 43 - The realist, if he is an artist, will seek to give us not a banal photographic representation of life, but a vision of it that is fuller, more vivid and more compellingly truthful than even reality itself.
Stran 200 - Gino, I teach teenagers who all have Italian names and who have one culture, that of silence. Silence about the peasant origin of their parents. Silence about the manipulation they're victims of. Silence about the country they live in. Silence about the reasons for their silence.
Stran 22 - What, then, is a sphere of consciousness essentially and peculiarly Canadian? I should think that the main distinguishing feature would have to be dependent upon the main distinguishing feature of the Canadian nation —the coexistence of two major ethnic groups. To be in the emerging mainstream of Canadian literature, therefore, a writer must have some awareness of fundamental aspects and attitudes of both language groups in Canada.
Stran 171 - PErch' i' no spero di tornar giammai, ballatetta, in Toscana, va' tu, leggera e piana, dritt' a la Donna mia, che per sua cortesia ti farà molto onore.
Stran 91 - After a while I could almost see her: she lived under the earth somewhere, or inside something, a cave or a huge building; sometimes she was on a boat. She was enormously powerful, almost like a goddess, but it was an unhappy power.