Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian by Silvia Valisa
By Silvia Valisa
Combining shut textual readings with a extensive theoretical viewpoint, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance within the sleek Italian Novel is a learn of the ways that gender shapes the imperative characters and narratives of 7 very important Italian novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi (1827) to Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli (1982).
Silvia Valisa’s leading edge method specializes in the tensions among the characters and the gender ideologies that encompass them, and the ways that this dissonance exposes the ideological and epistemological buildings of the fashionable novel. A provocative account of the intersection among gender, narrative, and epistemology that pulls at the paintings of Georg Lukács, Barbara Spackman, and Teresa de Lauretis, this quantity deals an interesting new method of investigating the character of fiction.
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