Maria Truglio: 2 books
Beyond the Family Romance
The Legend of Pascoli
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is one of Italy’s most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascoli’s domestic verse. As suggested by the Freudian title, this study opens a dialogue between Pascoli’s literature...
Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity
Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept...