Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton, eds. Italian Cultural Studies.(Book Review)

From: Italica | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera, 2001.

This fine volume includes 14 essays that were originally presented at the First Annual Italian Cultural Studies conference, held at Dartmouth College in October 1999. The editors divide the book into two parts: "Theoretical and General Observations" and "Practicing Italian Cultural Studies." Essays in the first section deal with the critiques of/opposition to Cultural Studies as a field of scholarly inquiry in general (its fluid methodology, seeming ahistoricity and emphasis on socio-political rather than literary issues) as well as its ...

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