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Neorealism and the "New" Italy

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

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

ISBN: 978-1-137-54132-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Aug 21, 2016

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Compassion in Ginzburg’s Depictions of Family Relationships

Milli Konewko, Simonetta

Pages: 117 –132

[This chapter analyzes representations of compassion in Ginzburg’s Family Sayings, examining her father’s unemotional detachment and occasionally violent conduct. The author highlights the negative consequences of such behavior for others and suggests both self-criticism and depth of the Fascist...
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Moravia’s Representation of Compassion

Milli Konewko, Simonetta

Pages: 133 –157

[This chapter investigates divergent possibilities for triggering or denying compassionate responses by stressing the values of Italian society that need to find permanence and stability. The female protagonist’s compassionate reactions, or their absence, draw attention to creative ways for...
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Women, Compassion, and the Resistance Movement in L’Agnese va a morire

Milli Konewko, Simonetta

Pages: 159 –177

[This chapter exemplifies the dual function of the protagonist, who is presented both as subject and object of compassion, thereby showing the numerous methods in which women contributed in World War II. Seen as both an external and an internal capability to behave wisely, compassion is the...
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Compassion and the Construction of Women’s Identity in Rome, Open City

Milli Konewko, Simonetta

Pages: 179 –200

[This chapter investigates Rossellini’s representations of compassion, opening new lines of inquiry in the examination of the film. It also highlights potential connections with the traditional patriarchal ideology, prevailing during Italy’s Fascist period, and deviations from it, which...
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Compassion in Survival in Auschwitz

Milli Konewko, Simonetta

Pages: 205 –224

[This chapter examines the conditions created by the Italian anti-Semitic racial laws (1937) and the concentration camps, which provide the most extreme context for examining compassion. Although scholarly studies generally approach Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Smoke over Birkenau by...
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Compassion in Smoke over Birkenau

Milli Konewko, Simonetta

Pages: 225 –242

[This chapter investigates female models of compassion during the Holocaust that open new methods of analysis of Millu’s Smoke over Birkenau. These representations suggest ways of generating affectional bonds and, consequently, fighting and reversing the horror of Nazi totalitarianism. Liana...

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