Italian and Italian American Studies: Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity

Milli Konewko, Simonetta

Neorealism and the "New" Italy centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions. Simonetta Milli Konewko proposes that compassion as an emotion may be activated to unify certain individuals and communities and investigates the mechanisms that allowed compassion to operate during the postwar period. Aiming to produce a deeper understanding of the ways in which Italy is re-encoded and reconstructed, this book explores the formation of Italian identity and redefines neorealism as a topic of investigation.  

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-08-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137541321

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-52416-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 272