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Article: The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2004
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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Ed. by PETER HAINSWORTH and DAVID ROBEY. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. xlv+644pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818332-1.
It needs to be stated that now there is an Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, and for professional Italianists this represents a welcome albeit tardy recognition by a major publisher that theirs is a world literature important enough to have a Companion. This 'first of its kind' volume has almost 2,400 entries, written by some 200 scholars drawn mainly from these islands, Italy, and Switzerland, but also from the USA and Australia. The authorship of wide-ranging entries is shared; for ...