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Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel / Silvia Valisa.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781442649224
  • 9781442619753
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 853/.7093521 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. “A Somewhat Unusual Nun”: Writing Gender in I promessi sposi -- 2. The Epistemology of the Young Woman: Analysis and Revelation in Three Fin-de-siècle Novels -- 3. The Mule and the Ghost: Gender, Realism, and the Fantastic in Giovanni Verga and Marchesa Colombi -- 4. Intellectual Experiments: The Philosopher and the Housewife -- 5. A Poetics of Rejection: Elsa Morante and the Gender of the Real -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. “A Somewhat Unusual Nun”: Writing Gender in I promessi sposi -- 2. The Epistemology of the Young Woman: Analysis and Revelation in Three Fin-de-siècle Novels -- 3. The Mule and the Ghost: Gender, Realism, and the Fantastic in Giovanni Verga and Marchesa Colombi -- 4. Intellectual Experiments: The Philosopher and the Housewife -- 5. A Poetics of Rejection: Elsa Morante and the Gender of the Real -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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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.

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In English.

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