In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Schachter, Elizabeth | Copyright information

In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism. By GIULIANA MINGHELLI. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xi+238 pp. 32[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3638-4.

I first came across Minghelli's work, when working on Svevo, in the shape of her article 'In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Narratives of Symbiosis in La coscienza di Zeno', MLN, 109 (1994), 49-72, which in the present volume forms part of the last chapter. In the...

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