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Gendering Italian Fiction

Maria Ornella Marotti,Gabriella Brooke
Gendering Italian Fiction Book PDF

Author : Maria Ornella Marotti,Gabriella Brooke
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083863771X

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Gendering Italian Fiction by Maria Ornella Marotti,Gabriella Brooke Pdf

This volume is an exploration of the innovative ways in which three generations of women writers in modern Italy have dealt with history - both as narration of events and the events themselves. The essays challenge traditional historiography and foster a rereading of history based on the tenets of feminist historicism. They also claim a central role for fiction in the construction of women's history and in a rereading of Italian history.

Gendered Contexts

Laura Benedetti,Julia L. Hairston,Silvia M. Ross
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Author : Laura Benedetti,Julia L. Hairston,Silvia M. Ross
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015037763664

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Gendered Contexts by Laura Benedetti,Julia L. Hairston,Silvia M. Ross Pdf

The application of feminist thought to the study of Italian culture is generating some of the most innovative work in the field today. This volume presents a range of essays which focus on the construction of gender in Italian literature as well as essays in feminist theory. The contributions reflect the current diversity of critical approaches available to those interrogating gender and offer interpretations of prose, poetry, theater, and the visual arts from Boccaccio, Michelangelo, and Galileo to contemporary Italian writers such as Carla Cerati and Dacia Maraini.

Italian Women Writers

Katharine Mitchell
Italian Women Writers Book PDF

Author : Katharine Mitchell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442646414

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Italian Women Writers by Katharine Mitchell Pdf

Italian Women Writers looks at the work of three of the most significant women in late nineteenth century Italy whose domestic fiction and journalism addressed a growing female readership.

The Pleasure of Writing

Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld,Ada Testaferri
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Author : Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld,Ada Testaferri
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1557531978

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The Pleasure of Writing by Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld,Ada Testaferri Pdf

"This volume is recommended to both Italianist and feminist scholars and students, as well as to readers concerned with the ties between literary theory and textual analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

Gendering the Renaissance

Meredith K. Ray,Lynn Lara Westwater
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Author : Meredith K. Ray,Lynn Lara Westwater
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644533062

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Gendering the Renaissance by Meredith K. Ray,Lynn Lara Westwater Pdf

The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future directions in these fields.

Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature

Eva Pelayo Sañudo
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Author : Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000390841

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Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature by Eva Pelayo Sañudo Pdf

Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the genre represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows them to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions. Spaces are inherently marked by the ideology of the societies that create and practice them, and this volume engages with spaces of cultural and gendered identity, particularly those of the ‘mean streets’ in Italian American fiction, which provide a method of critically analyzing the configurations and representations of identity associated with the Italian American community. Key authors examined include Julia Savarese, Marion Benasutti, Tina De Rosa, Helen Barolini, Melania Mazzucco and Laurie Fabiano. This book is suitable for students and scholars in Literature, Italian Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.

Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel

Silvia Valisa
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Author : Silvia Valisa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442619760

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Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel by Silvia Valisa Pdf

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.

Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture

Norma Bouchard
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Author : Norma Bouchard
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0838640540

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Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture by Norma Bouchard Pdf

The renewed attention to the origin and shape of nationalist discourses has promoted many excellent studies devoted to examining the rich storehouse of cultural responses produced during and after Risorgimento, the political events that, from 1859 to 1870, led Italy from being a fragmented peninsual to an independent and unified nation-state. However, the assessment of Risorgimento and its myths from the post-World War II era to the present remains, for the most part, unexplored. While it is undeniable that the dramatic economic, social, and political transformations that have characterized Italy from the second half of the twentieth century to the present have altered the role and function of nationalist narratives, it remains equally true that interest in the Risorgimento in modern Italian culture has not diminished.

Addressing the Letter

Laura Anne Salsini
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Author : Laura Anne Salsini
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442641655

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Addressing the Letter by Laura Anne Salsini Pdf

Women writers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy reinvigorated the modern epistolary novel through their re-fashioning of the genre as a tool for examining women's roles and experiences. Addressing the Letter argues that many epistolary novels purposely tie narrative structure to thematic content, creating in the process powerful texts that reflect and challenge literary and socio-cultural norms. Through the lens of the genre, Laura A. Salsini considers how the works of authors including the Marchesa Colombi, Sibilla Aleramo, Gianna Manzini, Natalia Ginzburg, and Oriana Fallaci highlight such issues as love, the loss of ideals, lack of communication and connection, and feminist ideology. She also analyses what may be the first woman-authored Italian example of epistolary fiction: Orintia Romagnuoli Sacrati's Lettere di Giulia Willet (1818). In their reworking of the epistolary narrative form, Italian women writers challenged dominant assumptions about female behaviours, roles, relationships, and sexuality in modern Italy.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies

Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies Book PDF

Author : Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135455293

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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies by Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.

Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature

Nicoletta Mandolini
Representations of Lethal Gender Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature Book PDF

Author : Nicoletta Mandolini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000424942

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Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature by Nicoletta Mandolini Pdf

This book discusses femicide in Italy, and the cultural conversations that have resulted from feminist discourse on lethal violence against women entering the mainstream, by analyzing journalistic inquiries and literary works produced after 2012. In a global and national context where activism’s goals are mainly discursive this study deepens our understanding of the role played by written narratives in the critique of a public interest matter such as gender-based violence. The first part of the book is dedicated to the analysis of three journalistic inquiries published in book format that focus on one or more cases of femicide that happened on the Italian peninsula. The second section draws on the concept of feminist rewriting to propose the analysis of a heterogeneous body of literary texts that explore some of the most controversial and notorious femicide cases covered by previous journalistic, historical, or mythical narratives, before demonstrating the close connection between theoretical and narrative discourse within the analyzed texts. This is a fascinating case study contributing to global understandings of gender-based violence, which will be important for researchers in gender studies, sociology, and media studies.

Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000

Patrizia Sambuco
Italian Women Writers 1800 2000 Book PDF

Author : Patrizia Sambuco
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611477917

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Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000 by Patrizia Sambuco Pdf

Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on topics of spatial and cultural boundaries, border identities, and expressions of excluded identities. This book discusses works by known and less-known writers as well as by some new writers: Sibilla Aleramo, La Marchesa Colombi, Giuliana Morandini, Elsa Morante, Neera, Matilde Serao, Ribka Sibhatu, Patrizia Valduga, Annie Vivanti, Laila Waida, among others; writers who in their works have manifested transgression to confinement and entrapment, either social, cultural, or professional; or who have given significance to national and transnational borders, or have employed particular narrative strategies to give voice to what often exceeds expression. Through its contributions, the volume demonstrates how Italian women writers have negotiated material as well as social and cultural boundaries, and how their literary imagination has created dimensions of boundary-crossing.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J

Gaetana Marrone
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies A J Book PDF

Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : 9781579583903

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Italian Women at War

Susan Amatangelo
Italian Women at War Book PDF

Author : Susan Amatangelo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611479546

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Italian Women at War by Susan Amatangelo Pdf

Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this topic. Part one of the book focuses on heroines who fought for Italy’s Unification and on the anti-heroines, or brigantesse, who opposed such a momentous change. Part two considers exceptional individuals, such as Eva Kühn Amendola, who combatted both with her body and her pen, as well as collective female efforts during the world wars, whether military or civilian. In part three, where the context is twentieth-century society, the focus shifts to those women engaged in less conventional conflicts who resorted to different forms of revolt, including active non-violence. All of the women presented across these chapters engage in combat to protest a particular state of affairs and effect change, yet their weapons range from the literal, like Peppa La Cannoniera’s cannon, to the metaphorical, like Letizia Battaglia’s camera. Several of the essays in this volume discuss fictional heroines who appear in works of literature and film, though all are based on actual women and reference real historical contexts. Italian Women at War furthers the efforts begun decades ago to recognize Italian women combatants, especially in light of the recent anniversary of the Unification in 2011 and global discussions regarding the role of women in the military. Its aim is not to glorify violence and war, but to celebrate the active role of Italian women in the evolution of their nation and to demystify the idea of the woman warrior, who has always been viewed either as an extraordinary, almost mythical creature or as an affront to the traditional feminine identity.

Elusive Subjects

Susanna Scarparo
Elusive Subjects Book PDF

Author : Susanna Scarparo
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781904744191

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Elusive Subjects by Susanna Scarparo Pdf

This book uses a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the role of biographies and autobiographies in the construction of historical narratives.