Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture - Hardcover

by Daniela Bini (Author)

Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture examines how the strong mother-son relationship not only affected, but actually shaped the work of Italian artists as different as Pirandello, Carlo Levi, Buzzati, Pasolini, Fellini, concluding on with a look at mammismo/vitellonismo in some Italian film comedies.

Author Biography

Daniela Bini is professor of Italian studies and comparative literature at the University of Texas, Austin.