Contemporary Italian Women Writers And Traces Of The Fantastic

Author : Danielle Hipkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351195331

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Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic by Danielle Hipkins Pdf

"Contemporary fantastic fiction, particularly that written by women, often challenges traditional literary practice. At the same time the predominantly male-authored canon of fantastic literature offers a problematic range of gender stereotypes for female authors to 're-write'. Fantastic tropes, of space in particular, enable three important contemporary Italian female writers (Paola Capriolo, b. 1962; Francesca Duranti, b. 1935 and Rossana Ombres, b. 1931) to encounter and counter anxieties about writing from the female subject. All three writers begin by exploring the hermetic, fantastic space of enclosure with a critical, or troubled, eye, but eventually opt for wider national, and often international spaces, in which only a 'fantastic trace' remains. This shift mirrors their own increasingly confident distance from male-authored literary models and demonstrates the creative input that these writers bring to the literary canon, by redefining its generic boundaries."

Author : Francesca Billiani,Gigliola Sulis
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838641261

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The Italian Gothic and Fantastic by Francesca Billiani,Gigliola Sulis Pdf

Meanwhile, by assimilating the Other into our own modes of representation of reality and imagination, twentieth-century female writers of the fantastic show how alternative identities can be shaped and social constituencies can be challenged."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ursula Fanning
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930327

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Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century by Ursula Fanning Pdf

This critical volume offers an overview and close analysis of Italian women’s autobiographical writings from the twentieth century, engaging with issues of form and content and identifying recurring paradigms. It will be of interest to students of Italian literature and culture, autobiographical studies, and gender studies.

Author : Maria Ornella Marotti
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015038027861

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Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present by Maria Ornella Marotti Pdf

A collection of essays providing feminist interpretations of Italian women's literary and cinematic production over the centuries.

Author : Mina Qiao
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793646132

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Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature by Mina Qiao Pdf

Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines selected contemporary Japanese writers and their use of fantastical spaces. Such spaces grant access to phenomena occluded from everyday life, including the geographically peripheral, the culturally marginalized, the psychologically liminal, and the physically intangible.

Author : Santo L. Aricò
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015018481633

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Contemporary Women Writers in Italy by Santo L. Aricò Pdf

Despite the range and high quality of their work, Italian women writers have received scant attention from critics, in Italy or elsewhere. All too often, their contributions have gone unrecognized. This collection demonstrates the importance of these writers to the literary world and seeks to bring them the critical attention they deserve. Twelve scholars and literary critics examine some of the best prose produced in recent years by Italian women in a variety of genres, including fiction, journalism, and biography. Among the writers discussed are Anna Banti, Camilla Cederna, Fausta Cialente, Oriana Fallaci, Natalia Ginzburg, Armanda Guiducci, Gina Lagorio, Gianna Manzini, Dacia Maraini, Elsa Morante, Lalla Romano, and Francesca Sanvitale. The topics they address range from love, disillusionment, friendship, and family life to artistic vision and the journalistic novel, to political activism, the condition of women in Italy, and the impact of feminism on Italian culture. Although some of the writers discussed describe themselves as feminists, others do not. Similarly, the contributors to the volume represent a spectrum of critical and political perspectives. What emerges is a series of portraits that reflect the variety, dynamism, and creativity of women writers in modern-day Italy.

Author : Valentina Polcini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443860833

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Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture by Valentina Polcini Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between Dino Buzzati’s fiction and Anglo-American culture by focusing on his re-use of visual texts (Arthur Rackham’s illustrations), narrative sources (Joseph Conrad’s novels), and topoi belonging to such genres as the seafaring tale, the ghost story and the Christmas story. Tracing Buzzati’s recurring theme of the loss of imagination, Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture shows that, far from being a mere imitator, he carries on an original and conscious reworking of pre-existing literary motifs. Especially through the adoption of intertextual strategies, Buzzati laments the lack of an imaginative urge in contemporary society and attempts a recovery of the fantastic imagery of his models. Alongside a reconsideration of Buzzati’s intertextuality, this book offers new insights into Buzzati’s fantastic fiction, by highlighting its playful and ironic component as opposed to the more overtly pervading sense of gloominess and nostalgia. Furthermore, while filling a gap in the critical study of Buzzati in the English-speaking world, the book contributes towards a general reassessment of an author who, although regarded as minor for many years, can rightly be ranked among the masters of twentieth-century fantastic literature.

Author : Danielle Hipkins,University of Warwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59334417

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Unmanned Territories by Danielle Hipkins,University of Warwick Pdf

Author : Gian Maria Annovi,Flora Ghezzo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442619234

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Anna Maria Ortese by Gian Maria Annovi,Flora Ghezzo Pdf

After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante. Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory. Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to Ortese’s work, the contributors to this collection map the author’s complex textual geography, with its overlapping literary genres, forms, and conceptual categories, and the rhetorical and narrative strategies that pervade Ortese’s many types of writing. The essays are complemented by material translated here for the first time: Ortese’s unpublished letters to her mentor, the writer Massimo Bontempelli; and an extended interview with Ortese by fellow Italian novelist Dacia Maraini.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martha King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015018454713

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New Italian Women by Martha King Pdf

"New Italian Women" is a collection of twenty-four stories by seventeen contemporary Italian women celebrates a high level of accomplishment that draws on a tradition of women's literature in Italy, but also marks a new and exciting vitality in Italian fiction. Writing of various experiences and from different regions, these women all create with an ease born of confidence in their art. They exhibit a control, an emotional detachment, that allows the deep irony of their invented world to play below the surface. They have a succinctness, a skill in limiting, that reveals more than layers of detail possibly could. These women share a talent for contriving psychological insights that surprise and touch the reader. AUTHORS INCLUDE Anna Banti, Grazia Deledda, Paola Drigo, Natalia Ginzburg, Geda Jacolutti, Gina Lagorio, Rosetta Loy, Dacia Maraini, Milena Milani, Marina Mizzau, Giuliana Morandini, Elsa Morante, Maria Occhipinti, Anna Maria Ortese, Fabrizia Ramondino, Francesca Sanvitale, and Monica Sarsini.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCBK:C098759700

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New Books on Women, Gender and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rinaldina Russell
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780313283475

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Italian Women Writers by Rinaldina Russell Pdf

Women have had a long and active role in Italian letters. This reference work contains biographical, critical, and bibliographical profiles of 51 writers from the 14th century to the present day. The entries are written by contributors knowledgeable of the historical period in which their chosen writers lived, and reflect both the literary tradition that conditioned their works and the modern gender issues that have shaped contemporary critical interpretation. For easy reference, the entries in this volume are organized alphabetically and have a uniform format. The first section of each entry is a biographical outline that places primary emphasis on the writer's career and her literary contributions. The second section analyzes recurrent themes, with special regard to the writer's major works. The third section surveys her critical fortune and includes a bibliography, which lists primary works, English translations, and critical studies of the writer. The writers included represent different periods in Italian cultural history and offer the greatest possible variety in women's literary experience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : K.G. Saur Verlag
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3598694539

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2009 by Anonim Pdf

Reviews are an important aspect of scholarly discussion because they help filter out which works are relevant in the yearly flood of publications and are thus influential in determining how a work is received. The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, it is a unique source of bibliographical information. The database contains entries on over 1.2 million book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,820, mainly European scholarly journals. Reviews of more than 560,000 scholarly works are listed. The database increases every year by 60,000 entries. Every entry contains the following information: On the work reviewed: author, title On the review: reviewer, periodical (year, edition, page, ISSN), language, subject area (in German, English, Italian) Publisher, address of journal

Author : Francesca Billiani,Gigliola Sulis
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015073650981

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The Italian Gothic and Fantastic by Francesca Billiani,Gigliola Sulis Pdf

Meanwhile, by assimilating the Other into our own modes of representation of reality and imagination, twentieth-century female writers of the fantastic show how alternative identities can be shaped and social constituencies can be challenged."--BOOK JACKET.