The Italian gothic and fantastic : encounters and rewritings of narrative traditions / edited by Francesca Billiani and Gigliola Sulis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Billiani, Francesca.

Sulis, Gigliola.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy literature, Italian--History and criticism--Congresses.

Fantasy literature, Italian.

Italian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Italian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Fantastic, The, in literature.

Gothic literature--Italy.

Gothic literature.

Italy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

243 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2007]

Contents:

The Italian gothic and fantastic: an inquiry into the notions of literary and cultural traditions (1869-1997) / Francesca Billiani

Critical coordinates: the boundaries of the fantastic / Remo Ceserani

Anxiety-free: rereadings of the Freudian "uncanny" / Monica Farnetti

Nineteenth-century experimentations: the eye that kills: notes on a fantastic theme / Vittorio Roda

A portrait of the writer as a somnambule: reflections on verismo and phantasmagoria in Verga and Capuana / Angelo M. Mangini

Sensation, seduction, and the supernatural: Fogazzaro's Malombra / Ann Hallamore Caesar

From domestic to dramatic: Matilde Serao's use of the gothic / Ursula Fanning

The female fantastic in the twentieth century: fantasy, narrative, and the natural world in Anna Maria Ortese / Sharon Wood

An inquiry into modality and genre: reconsidering L'Iguana by Anna Maria Ortese / Daniela La Penna

Excessively fantastic?: Rossana Ombres's Serenata / Danielle Hipkins

Paola Capriolo's mythic fantasies / Rita Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838641262

0838641261

OCLC:

133465466