Gender, narrative, and dissonance in the modern Italian novel / Silvia Valisa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valisa, Silvia, 1971- author.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies.

Toronto Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Italian fiction.

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

Gender identity in literature.

Characters and characteristics in literature.

Women in literature.

Marchesa Colombi, 1840-1920.

Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985.

Verga, Giovanni, 1840-1922.

Local Subjects:

Marchesa Colombi, 1840-1920.

Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985.

Verga, Giovanni, 1840-1922.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, this book is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Contents:

"A somewhat unusual nun" : writing gender in I promessi sposi

The epistemology of the young woman : analysis and revelation in three fin-de-siecle novels

The mule and the ghost : gender, realism, and the fantastic in Giovanni Verga and Marchesa Colombi

Intellectual experiments : the philosopher and the housewife

A poetics of rejection : Elsa Morante and the gender of the real

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-1976-7

1-4426-1975-9

OCLC:

898086097