World's Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915 (Toronto Italian Studies) by Cristina Della Coletta

Cristina Della Coletta. Download PDF book format. Choose file format of this book to download: pdf chm txt rtf doc. Download this format book. World's fairs Italian style : the great exhibitions in Turin and their narratives, 1860-1915 Cristina Della Coletta. Book's title: World's fairs Italian style : the great exhibitions in Turin and their narratives, 1860-1915 Cristina Della Coletta. Library of Congress Control Number: 2007297414. Personal Name: Della Coletta, Cristina, 1962-. Publication, Distribution, et. Toronto ; Buffalo. University of Toronto Press, (c)2006. Physical Description: x, 351 p. : ill. ;, 24 cm. Title: Toronto Italian studies. Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. -338) and index. Personal Name: Salgari, Emilio, 1862-1911 Criticism and interpretation. Personal Name: Gozzano, Guido, 1883-1916 Criticism and interpretation.

Cristina della coletta. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Published by: University of Toronto Press. 1 Prologues to World’s Fairs: National Expositions and Nation Building in Turin. In what they have labelled the long ‘autumn of the Risorgimento,’ numerous historians saw post-1864 Turin as the victim of a protracted period of political marginalization and identity crisis.

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World's Fairs Italian-Style explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination - an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within. She focuses on two best-selling authors, Emilio Salgari and Guido Gozzano, and illustrates how these authors interpreted their age's 'exposition mentality

As Cristina Della Coletta rightly recognizes, analyzing the staging of such World's Fairs in Italy, at a time when the country was still situated on the edge of the global economic core, ought to provide a wealth of opportunities for rereading the ways in which Italy's initial transition toward a consumer society was experienced.

Series:Toronto Italian Studies. University of toronto press. Cristina Della Coletta is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia.

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Della Coletta's book consists of two parts. The first is a historical discussion of World's Fairs and the cultural phenomenon they were in Italy. The second "deals with what I call 'exposition narrative' - it includes short stories, novels, poetry travel pieces that have the spirit of universal exhibitions," she said. The project began with Della Coletta's fascination with Italian author Guido Gozzano. In 1912-13 Gozzano "wrote a journal of his alleged travels to India. There were numerous international expositions during this time, including "one spectacular World's Fair in Turin in 1911. Della Coletta's study resulted in "World's Fairs," as well as a continuing project through the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. As an IATH fellow, she works with "an amazing group of technologists and scholars. My project to create a digital project of the World Fairs.

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World's Fairs Italian-Style. The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915 · Toronto Italian Studies. Sociology Nonfiction. Publisher: University of Toronto Press.