From margins to mainstream : feminism and fictional modes in Italian women's writing, 1968-1990 / Carol Lazzaro-Weis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazzaro-Weis, Carol M., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Italian fiction.

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

Women and literature--Italy--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Feminist fiction--History and criticism.

Feminist fiction.

Feminism and literature--Italy.

Feminism and literature.

Feminism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Carol Lazzaro-Weiss studies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, she runs counter to many Anglo-American and French feminist theorists who contend that traditional genres cannot readily serve as vehicles for feminist expression.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Feminism and Its Literary Discontents

Chapter 2. Separatism in Literature and Politics

Chapter 3. From Confession to Romance

Chapter 4. The Female Bildungsroman

Chapter 5. The Historical Novel: History as Female Subjectivity

Chapter 6. Cherchez la femme: Feminism and the Giallo

Chapter 7. Mainstreaming

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index.

ISBN:

0-8122-0670-3

1-283-89684-2

0-585-12040-4

OCLC:

44965768