The challenge of the modern : essays on Grazia Deledda / edited by Sharon Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Sharon, 1957-

Series:

Troubador Italian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deledda, Grazia, 1871-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

Deledda, Grazia.

Deledda, Grazia, 1871-1936.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Challenge of modernity

Place of Publication:

Leicester [England] : Troubador, 2007.

Summary:

Grazia Deledda has been variously categorised as Romantic, Realist, Symbolist or Decadent. This book aims to show the writer and her work in a fresh light, emphasising the extraordinary nature of her achievement given her unpromising beginnings. It offers insight into her work from the perspectives of modernism, feminism and post-colonialism.

Contents:

Introduction : locations, re-locations and dislocations: (dis)placing Grazia Deledda / Sharon Wood

Re-reading Grazia Deledda / Dacia Maraini

Deledda : a life / Jan Kozma

Grazia Deledda: the writer and her environment / Dolores Turchi

Forging an art : the early novels / Elise Magistro

Money, magic and manners : Deledda and the short story / Sharon Wood

Female desire : inheritance law, colonialism, and rural Sardinian culture in 'La volpe' / Rebecca Hopkins

Novelistic doubling/ideological unity in the narrative of Grazia Deledda / Angela Guiso

The enduring question of language and translation / Martha King

The ambivalence of cousinship in Deledda and Hardy / Annalisa Lilliu

Cenere by Grazia Deledda and Eleonora Duse / Margherita Heyer-Caput

Enclosure, escape and the erotic : shadows of the self in the writings of Grazia Deledda / Ursula Fanning

Waiting in a dream-time, waiting in a life-time : 'Verista' narratives and La chiesa della solitudine / Carla Locatelli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781906221676

1906221677

OCLC:

185030854

Publisher Number:

99993629702