Literary Nonfiction. George Guida’s Spectacles of Themselves is a brilliant survey that reflects the workings of a subtle mind with a keen eye for the minutiae of expression in a charged field. He explains the dynamics of many levels of linguistic interference, and he shows how writers use style to create characters for themselves. He is able to compare fruitfully the manners of very different essayists and writers in order to shed light on the varieties and possibilities of expression available to writers who have relations with more than one language and culture.”— Robert Viscusi, author of Buried Caesars and Other Stories of Italian American Writing
Spectacles of Themselves: Essays in Italian American Popular Culture and Literature
$18.00
Out of stock
SKU: 9781599540900
Category: Italian American Culture/Studies
Be the first to review “Spectacles of Themselves: Essays in Italian American Popular Culture and Literature” Cancel reply
Related products
Italian American Culture/Studies
From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930
$31.95
Biographies and Memoirs
The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself
$17.95
Italian American Culture/Studies
Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South
$45.00
Italian American Culture/Studies
The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali’s Italian/American Writing
$34.95
Sale!
Italian American Culture/Studies
The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy
$32.00
Italian American Culture/Studies
Sense of Origins : A Study of New York’s Young Italian Americans
$36.95
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.