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

By Silvia Valisa

ISBN-10: 1442649224

ISBN-13: 9781442649224

Combining shut textual readings with a large theoretical viewpoint, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance within the smooth Italian Novel is a learn of the ways that gender shapes the critical characters and narratives of 7 very important Italian novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi (1827) to Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli (1982).

Silvia Valisa’s leading edge technique makes a speciality of the tensions among the characters and the gender ideologies that encompass them, and the ways that this dissonance exposes the ideological and epistemological buildings of the trendy novel. A provocative account of the intersection among gender, narrative, and epistemology that pulls at the paintings of Georg Lukács, Barbara Spackman, and Teresa de Lauretis, this quantity bargains an fascinating new method of investigating the character of fiction.

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