Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel /

Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel / / Silvia Valisa.

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Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
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Valisa, Silvia,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. "A Somewhat Unusual Nun": Writing Gender in I promessi sposi
  • 2. The Epistemology of the Young Woman: Analysis and Revelation in Three Fin-de-siècle Novels
  • 3. The Mule and the Ghost: Gender, Realism, and the Fantastic in Giovanni Verga and Marchesa Colombi
  • 4. Intellectual Experiments: The Philosopher and the Housewife
  • 5. A Poetics of Rejection: Elsa Morante and the Gender of the Real
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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