In the Shadow of the Mammoth : : Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism /

In the Shadow of the Mammoth : : Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism / / Giuliana Minghelli.

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The writings of Italo Svevo (1861-1928), who was a pioneer of the modernist novel in Italy, are being revived in both Italian and English. Giuliana Minghelli's In the Shadow of the Mammoth uses Svevo's parodic Darwinian fable of the prehistoric encounter between the weak and 'unfinish...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Minghelli, Giuliana,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2002
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Between Darwinian Origins and Modernist Ends: Svevo's Allegory of Symbiosis
  • 2. Of Artists, Women, and Jews: Svevo and the Modernist Contamination
  • 3. Between Darwinism and Dreams: The Stories of Alfonso and Annetta in Una Vita
  • 4. The Crying of the Statues: Art and Women in Senilità
  • 5. Leading the Pedagogue by the Hand
  • 6. Out of the Shadow of the Mammoth: Zeno and the Story of the Other
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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