Gender Narrative And Dissonance In The Modern Italian Novel
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Author | : Silvia Valisa |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442619767 |
Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi (1827) to Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli (1982). Silvia Valisa’s innovative approach focuses on the tensions between the characters and the gender ideologies that surround them, and the ways in which this dissonance exposes the ideological and epistemological structures of the modern novel. A provocative account of the intersection between gender, narrative, and epistemology that draws on the work of Georg Lukács, Barbara Spackman, and Teresa de Lauretis, this volume offers an intriguing new approach to investigating the nature of fiction.
Author | : Chiara Giuliani |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2022-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000798496 |
With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach. The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors’ obsession, to symbols of loss, displacement, and violence. By bringing into dialogue the work of specialists in ethnology, art history, architecture, and design; literature, languages, cultures, and heritage studies, this volume considers how displaced memory – the memory of refugees, migrants, and their descendants; of those who have moved from the countryside to the city; of those who have faced personal upheaval and profound social change; those who have been forced into exile or experienced major personal or collective loss – can become embodied in material culture. This book is important reading to those interested in cultural and social history and cultural studies.
Author | : Brian Zuccala |
Publisher | : Firenze University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2022-07-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 8855185977 |
The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).
Author | : Letizia Panizza |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521578134 |
This volume offers a comprehensive account of writing by women in Italy.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2426 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Languages, Modern |
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Author | : Anne Jacobson Schutte |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2001-08-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1935503723 |
This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women’s lives. It moves beyond men’s prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. The contributors show that women’s lives changed over the life course and differed according to region and social class. They also demonstrate that in the early modern period the largely private spaces in women’s lives were not enclosed worlds isolated from the public spaces in which men operated. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.
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Publisher | : Best Books Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 1132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cinzia Sartini Blum |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0802097898 |
Sartini Blum demonstrate that women writers and migrant authors in contemporary Italy present journeys as events that are beyond heroic modern exploration and postmodern fragmentation.
Author | : Adriana Cavarero |
Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0823290107 |
Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence. Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together three major feminist thinkers—Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig—to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence. The book consists of three longer essays by Cavarero, Butler, and Honig, followed by shorter responses by a range of scholars that widen the dialogue, drawing on post-Marxism, Italian feminism, queer theory, and lesbian and gay politics. Together, the authors contest the boundaries of their common project for a pluralistic, heterogeneous, but urgent feminist ethics of nonviolence.
Author | : Gabriele Lazzari |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2024-08-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350385697 |
A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico. By theorizing four modalities of totalization employed by contemporary realist writers, this book explores the current resurgence of realism and challenges critical approaches that consider it naive or formally unsophisticated. Instead, it argues that realist novels offer a self-conscious and serious representation of the world we inhabit while actively envisioning new social designs and political configurations. Through comparative studies of novels by Fernanda Melchor, NoViolet Bulawayo, Vivek Shanbhag, Nicola Lagioia, Igiaba Scego, Yaa Gyasi and Roberto Bolaño, this book further explains why realism can be a powerful antidote to the skepticism about the possibility of making truth-claims in humanist research.