A Multitude of Women: The Challenges of the Contemporary Italian Novel - Rilegato

Lucamante, Stefania

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ISBN 10: 0802097944 ISBN 13: 9780802097941

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2008

Riassunto

A Multitude of Women looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external influences have assisted Italian women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties between author, text, and readership in the construction of the novel. Stefania Lucamante discusses the valuable contributions that Italian women writers have made to the contemporary novel and illustrates the relevance of the novelistic examples set by their predecessors. She addresses various discursive communities, reading works by Di Lascia, Ferrante, Vinci, and others with reference to intertextuality and the theories of Elsa Morante and Simone de Beauvoir.

This study identifies a positive deviation from literary and ideological orthodoxy, a deviation that helps give meaning to the Italian novel and to transform the traditional notion of the canon in Italian literature. Lucamante argues that this is partly due to the merits of women writers and their ability to eschew obsolete patterns in narrative while favouring forms that are more attuned to the ever-changing needs of society. She shows that contemporary novels by women authors mirror a shift from previous trends in which the need for female emancipation interfered with the actual literary and aesthetic significance of the novel. A Multitude of Women offers a new epistemology of the novel and will appeal to those interested in women's writing, readership, Italian studies, and literary studies in general.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Stefania Lucamante is an associate professor of Italian in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at The Catholic University of America.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0802097944
• ISBN 13: 9780802097941
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 324