Description |
1 online resource (x, 190 pages) |
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Toronto Italian studies |
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Toronto Italian studies.
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Contents |
Love letters -- Literary responses -- Making connections -- Addressing women |
Summary |
"Women writers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy reinvigorated the modern epistolary novel through their re-fashioning of the genre as a tool for examining women's roles and experiences. Addressing the Letter argues that many epistolary novels purposely tie narrative structure to thematic content, creating in the process powerful texts that reflect and challenge literary and socio-cultural norms. Through the lens of the genre, Laura A. Salsini considers how the works of authors including the Marchesa Colombi, Sibilla Aleramo, Gianna Manzini, Natalia Ginzburg, and Oriana Fallaci highlight such issues as love, the loss of ideals, lack of communication and connection, and feminist ideology. She also analyses what may be the first woman-authored Italian example of epistolary fiction: Orintia Romagnuoli Sacrati's Lettere di Giulia Willet (1818). In their reworking of the epistolary narrative form, Italian women writers challenged dominant assumptions about female behaviours, roles, relationships, and sexuality in modern Italy"--Publisher description |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index |
Notes |
Includes some text in Italian |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Epistolary fiction, Italian -- History and criticism
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Italian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Italian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Italian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Women and literature -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
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Women and literature -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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Epistolary fiction, Italian
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Gender identity in literature
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Italian fiction
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Italian fiction -- Women authors
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Sex role in literature
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Women and literature
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Women in literature
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Italy
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Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781442687233 |
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1442687231 |
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