Posterity: Inventing Tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci

by Rocco Rubini

Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers.

Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a "tradition," not understood narrowly, as the conservative, stubborn preservation of received conventions, values, and institutions, but instead as the deliberate effort on the part of writers to transmit a reformulated past across generations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022680755X
• ISBN13: 9780226807553
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"