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Once Upon a Time: Romance and Ritual in the Works of Tommaso Landolfi and Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues / Nicolo Moscatelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Moscatelli, Nicolo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance literature.
- Romance Languages--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Romance Languages.
- Local Subjects:
- Romance literature.
- Romance Languages--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Romance Languages.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 79-01A(E).
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]: University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This dissertation studies some features of the 20th century return to romance as a possible answer to the crisis of Modernism or, indeed, as an anti-modern stance. I've analyzed Mandiargues's work on the syntagmatic plan of narrative structures and narrative time and Landolfi's work on the paradigmatic plan of literary genres -- while showing how both authors resorted to the diegetic staging of magic and religious rituals in order to highlight and develop their narrative engagement with the forms of romance and discussing the implications of this. For this purpose I have also researched unpublished manuscript material at the Centro Studi Landolfiani in Siena, Italy, and at the IMEC in Caen, France. Landolfi's approach consistently comes to dismiss any possibility for romance, and indeed for literature as a whole, in our day; my research isolates some hypotexts of his fictions so far unacknowledged by scholars and proposes a reading that supports in an original way the critical distinction between two subsequent phases of his production. Mandiargues on the other hand, while granting that narrative can continue to be possible, seems to argue that this can only happen on the condition of a radical renunciation of identity, which I have considered in connection with notions of violence, eroticism, and alchemy.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
- Advisors: Philippe C. Met; Committee members: Kevin Brownlee; Mauro Calcagno; Eva Del Soldato; Fabio Finotti; Christine Poggi; Gerald J. Prince.
- Department: Romance Languages.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2017.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9780355181883
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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