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Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, Gian-Paolo Biasin explores a series of challenges posited for literary criticism by the success of semiotics, testing theoretical concepts not so much on theoretical grounds as in their practical application to literary texts from the high Romantic lyric of Ugo Foscolo to the postmodern, cosmicomic tales of Italo Calvino.

Originally published in 1985.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Introduction. Taffy's Beavers
  2. pp. 3-17
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  1. One. In the Primordial Origin of Evening
  2. pp. 18-47
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  1. Two. Fieramosca's Challenge
  2. pp. 48-77
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  1. Three. Sicilian Epiphanies
  2. pp. 78-114
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  1. Four. The Red or the Black
  2. pp. 115-142
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  1. Five. The Laboratory and the Labyrinth
  2. pp. 143-165
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  1. Six. 4/3πr3
  2. pp. 166-190
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  1. Index
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