Italian Studies: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

21 volumes, Baker-Berry Ref. PC1625 .B3

6 vols., Baker-Berry Ref.: PC1625 .D463 1999

Baker-Berry Ref.: PC1625 .Z45 1985

Baker-Berry Ref.: PC1625 .S23 2007

Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature combines the speed and flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing.

Part of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, includes essays on Italian writers of prose, discusses the rise of the middle class and the increase in literacy that fostered the growth and production of popular fiction, the emergence of the novel as a genre reflecting the diversity of Italian society, the impact of positivism, the founding of Futurism in 1909 and its challenge of established genres and the poetics of fragmentism.

The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature is based on a broad view of what constitutes literature, covering historical writing, travel writing, theatre, and philosophy as well as the novel, poetry, literary dialogues, and critical theory.

79 vols., Baker-Berry CT1123 .D5

6 vols., Baker-Berry Ref. PN466 .D54 2006