Italian Culture
Volume 24-25, 2006-2007
E-ISSN: 1559-0909 Print ISSN: 0161-4622
DOI: 10.1353/itc.2007.0025
E-ISSN: 1559-0909 Print ISSN: 0161-4622
DOI: 10.1353/itc.2007.0025
Amatangelo, Susan, 1967-
Fictive Mediation and Mediated Fiction in the Novels of Giovanni Verga (review)
Italian Culture - Volume 24-25, 2006-2007, pp. 229-232
Michigan State University Press
Susan Amatangelo - Fictive Mediation and Mediated Fiction in the Novels
of Giovanni Verga (review) - Italian Culture 24 Italian Culture 24
(2007) 229-232 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Susan Amatangelo College of the Holy Cross
Darby Tench. Fictive Mediation and Mediated Fiction in the Novels of
Giovanni Verga. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2005. Pp. xxxiv + 304. Fictive
Mediation and Mediated Fiction in the Novels of Giovanni Verga
represents a much-welcome contribution to scholarship on Verga,
verismo, and nineteenth-century Italian literature. Although the book
is not without its flaws, Darby Tench provides an expert reading of
Verga's masterpiece, I Malavoglia, and highlights the stylistic
sophistication of his earlier novels. The book's
introduction defines the terms "fictive mediation" and "mediated
fiction" while offering a preliminary history of the dialectic between
'immediacy' and 'mediation' in literature. Chapter 1 provides a
theoretical basis for Tench's analysis, which she...