Peter Carravetta, Del postmoderno

Peter Carravetta, professor of “Italian and Italian American Studies” at SUNY Stony Brook, with an Italian and American education, has put together in his massive Del postmoderno possibly the most complete critical review so far of American academic production from the 1970s to the present. “Postmod...

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Published inEuropean Journal of American Studies
Main Author Carrera, Alessandro
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published London European Association for American Studies 18.08.2010
The European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Subjects
Humanism
Modernity
Postmodernism
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Summary:Peter Carravetta, professor of “Italian and Italian American Studies” at SUNY Stony Brook, with an Italian and American education, has put together in his massive Del postmoderno possibly the most complete critical review so far of American academic production from the 1970s to the present. “Postmodern” is the key word of the cultural turn that took place between the 1950s and the 1970s only to meet its death, in Carravetta’s opinion, on September 11, 2001, when the shortlived illusion that h...
ISSN:1991-9336
1991-9336
DOI:10.4000/ejas.8516