|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1 Review
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Review of Buried Caesars,
This review is from: Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (Suny Series in Italian/American Studies) (Paperback)
Robert Viscusi's Buried Caesars is a collection of penetrating essays on Italian American writing. Viscusi is informed and detailed, but never pedantic. This isn't a book for intellectual wimps. The author employs all the surgical tools of current critical analysis, but always with his own unique - and at times unsettling - insights. A glance at the table of contents, which this Amazon site makes available, suggests the range of Viscusi's mind. On any page of any essay the reader might find references to, say, Dante, The Godfather, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, an analysis of the connotations of the name Napoleon, and Francesco Crispi's political ambitions. The reader need not agree with Viscusi any more than a chess player needs to agree with the strategy of his opponent. But he should be prepared for a vigorous intellectual encounter.
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (Suny Series in Italian/American Studies) by Robert Viscusi (Paperback - May 31, 2006)
$29.95
In Stock | |
 
| ||
