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Stereotyping of Italian-Americans being associated with the Mafia has been a consistent feature of movies such as The Godfather series, GoodFellas, and Casino, [26] and television series such as The Sopranos, which itself explored the concept by featuring non-Mafia Italian-Americans expressing concern at the Mafia's effect on their community's ...
The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents is a 1796 Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe.It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (although she would go on to write the novel Gaston de Blondeville, it was only published posthumously in 1826).
Penny wakes up at night and heard two nurses talking about her mother. They say her father was an Italian spy and was killed by the American government. When she asks her mother about this, she starts crying. Her aunt decides to tell her the truth. When Penny was a baby, her uncle Dominic bought her father a new radio.
Both British novelist Stewart Home and American novelist David Liss have interpreted Q as an "anti-novel", although their respective analyses come to different conclusions. While Home's review emphasized the social, political and subcultural references embedded in the plot, [3] Liss' review dismissed the book as unnecessary and self-referential ...
The historians of Italian literature are in doubt whether Torquato Tasso should be placed in the period of the highest development of the Renaissance, or whether he should form a period by himself, intermediate between that and the one following. [107] In Rinaldo, he tried to reconcile the Aristotelian rules with the variety of Ariosto.
Christ in Concrete is a 1939 novel by Pietro Di Donato about Italian-American construction workers.The book, which made Di Donato famous overnight, was originally published by Esquire Magazine as a short story in 1937, and subsequently expanded into a novel by the 28-year-old Di Donato.
In 1940 Walt Disney Productions produced Pinocchio based on the Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, the most translated non-religious book in the world and one of the best-selling books ever published, as well as a canonical piece of children's literature. The film was the second animated feature film produced ...
Pages in category "Italian-American literature" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.