Further Reading
- Allen, Beverly, "The Shadow of His Style," Stanford Italian Review II, No. 2 (Fall 1982): 1-6. (Compares the "assertive uniqueness" of the Catholicism, Marxism, and sexuality present in Pasolini's films as well as in his poems and novels.)
- Bongie, Chris, "A Postscript to Transgression: The Exotic Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini," in Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle, pp. 188-228. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991. (Analyzes Pasolini's relationship with the Third World in his work.)
- Capozzi, Frank, "Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Introduction to the Translations," Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 5, Nos. 1-2 (Fall/Winter 1981–82): 109-13. (Provides a brief overview of Pasolini's life and career.)
- Casarino, Cesare, "Oedipus Exploded: Pasolini and the Myth of Modernization," October, No. 59 (Winter 1992): 27-47. (States that "Pasolini in Edipo Re, rather than rewriting the myth of Oedipus, writes a myth of the myth of Oedipus: the focus shifts from Oedipus to the myth itself as a narrative practice.")
- Consoli, Joseph P., "Essay on Pasolini," Gay & Lesbian Literature, St. James Press, 19, pp. 291-94. (Presents an overview of Pasolini's life and career, including consideration of his homosexuality and its impact on his work.)
- Gatt-Rutter, John, "Pier Paolo Pasolini," in Writers and Society in Contemporary Italy: A Collection of Essays, edited by Michael Caesar and Peter Hainsworth, pp. 143-65. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. (Brief overview of Pasolini's career.)
- Jewell, Keala Jane, "Pasolini: Deconstructing the Roman Palimpsest," Substance 53, No. 2 (1987): 55-66. (Comments on Pasolini's representation of Rome and its history in Passione e ideologia and the poems "Le ceneri di Gramsci" and "Il pianto della scavatrice.")
- McCarthy, Patrick, "A Friulian Freedom," The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4684 (January 8, 1993): 19. (Reviews of The Letters of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the film version of Theorem, and Poetry. Calls Nico Naldini's biographical introduction to Letters "the best guide to Pasolini's early life" and commends Mazza's translations of Pasolini's difficult Poetry.)
- Michalczyk, John J., "Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Epical-Religious Cinema of Political Sexuality," in The Italian Political Filmmakers, pp. 64-107. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986. (Discusses Pasolini's aesthetic and personal evolution and the provocative nature of his work.)
- Peterson, Thomas E., "Parallel Derivations from Dante: Fortini, Duncan, Pasolini," South Atlantic Review 59, No. 4 (November 1994): 21-45. (Compares the poetry of Pasolini to that of Franco Fortini and Robert Duncan in the context of their debt to Dante.)
- Pivato, Joseph, "Cultural Differences," Canadian Literature, Nos. 138-139 (Fall/Winter 1993): 146-47. (Favorably reviews Antonio Mazza's translation of some of Pasolini's selected poetry.)
- Schwartz, Barth David, Pasolini Requiem. New York: Pantheon, 1992, 785 p. (Detailed biography of Pasolini's life, career, and violent death.)
- Siciliano, Enzo, Pasolini: A Biography, translated by John Shepley. New York: Random House, 1982, 435 p. (First translated biography of Pasolini.)
- Smith, Lawrence R., "Roman Poems: Pier Paolo Pasolini," Sulfur 6, No. 2 (November 1986): 126-29. (Review of Roman Poems in which Smith notes the difficulty in capturing the essence of Pasolini's poems when translated into English and observes "Pasolini's strange mixture of aesthetic conservatism and radicalism.")
- Stack, Oswald, Pasolini on Pasolini: Interviews with Oswald Stack. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969, 176 p. (The first chapter, "Background," deals with Pasolini's life and formation, the rest of the volume is a source of first-hand collected attestations on his cinemagraphic as well as his literary works. Includes a brief bibliography, mainly concerning his films.)
- Steele, Gary, "Pasolini: Complex Life, Bloody Death," Los Angeles Times Book Review (July 25, 1982): 7. (Reviews Siciliano's Pasolini: A Biography, which Steele calls "a heroic labor in portraying this complex figure," and Pasolini's Poems.)
- White, Edmund, "Movies and Poems: Pier Paolo Pasolini," in The Burning Library: Essays, edited by David Bergman, pp. 141-44. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. (Compares Pasolini's life, career, and works (particularly his poetry and films) to those of his "exact contemporary," the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, who also was a homosexual and suffered a violent death.)
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