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| Summary: | Postmodern Ethics offers a new perspective on debates surrounding the role of the intellectual in Italian society, and provides an original reading of two important Italian contemporary writers, Leonardo Sciascia and Antonio Tabucchi. It examines the ways in which the two writers use literature to engage with their socio-political environment in a climate informed by the doubts and scepticism of postmodernism, after traditional forms of impegno had been abandoned. Postmodern Ethics explores w ...
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Warwick, 2005) presented under the title: The phoenix speaks: the reclamation of socio-political engagement in the works of Leonardo Sciascia and Antonio Tabucchi, 1975-2005. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 210 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9781443810777
1443810770 |
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| Language: | English. |
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