Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini - Rilegato

Bond, Emma

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ISBN 10: 1907975381 ISBN 13: 9781907975387

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

If Madame Bovary’s death in Flaubert’s 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an entirely new set of implications for literature dealing with illness. The theorization of a potential unconscious double (capable of expressing the body, and thus also the intimate damage caused by disease) in turn suggested a capacity to subvert or destabilize the text, exposing the main thread of the narrative to be unreliable or self-conscious. Indeed, the authors examined in this study (Italo Svevo (1861-1928), Giorgio Pressburger (1937-) and Giuliana Morandini (1938-)) all make use of individual ‘infected’ or suppressed voices within their texts which unfold through illness to cast doubt on a more (conventionally) dominant narrative standpoint. Applying the theories of Freud and more recent writings by Julia Kristeva, Bond offers a new critical reading of the literary function of illness, a function related to the very nature of narration itself.

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L'autore:

Emma Bond is Senior Retained Lecturer in Italian at Pembroke College, Oxford. (Maney Publishing (distributed) 2012).

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1907975381
• ISBN 13: 9781907975387
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 198