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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-313) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 853/.914099287
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-it---
- ISBN
- 9781442688667 9780802097941
- LCCN
- PQ4055.W6
- LCCN Item number
- L83 2008eb
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (ix, 324 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00224391 (OCoLC)647921172 (CaOOCEL)430820
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Abbreviations 12
- Introduction: What Women Writers Do with the Knowability of the World 16
- 1 ‘Writing Is Always Playing with the Mother’s Body’: Mothers’ Rewrites 41
- 2 Of Fathers and Daughters, or the Italian Family Interrupted 122
- 3 Italian Sexual Patho-Politics Revisited 194
- Conclusions 247
- Notes 256
- Works Cited 310
- Index 328
- A 328
- B 328
- C 329
- D 330
- E 330
- F 330
- G 331
- H 331
- I 332
- J 332
- K 332
- L 332
- M 333
- N 334
- O 334
- P 334
- R 335
- S 335
- T 336
- U 336
- V 336
- W 336
- Y 337
- Z 337
