Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Discursive Ritual and Sacrificial Presentation: The Rhetoric of Crisis and Resolution in Fascist Italy 13
6. 2. Sacrificial Turns and Their Rhetorical Echoes 49
7. 3. Gadda’s Sacrificial Topographies 77
8. 4. The Redemption of Vittorini’s New Man 108
9. Conclusion 150
10. Appendix 157
11. Notes 177
12. Abbreviations 211
13. Bibliography 213
14. Index 223