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The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions
Francesca Billiani (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Billiani, Francesca; Sulis, Gigliola. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
This volume investigates modes of the reception, rewriting, and appropriation of the gothic and the fantastic in Italy in the late nineteenth century and the second half of the twentieth century. It articulates the ways in which Italian writers both undermined the narrative spaces created by realist narration and introduced agnoseological dimension centered on a disempowered and disjointed subjectivity. It argues that both in their breaking of nineteenth- and twentieth-century aesthetic and literary paradigms and in their radical questioning of personal, collective, ideological, and literary identities, the gothic and the fantastic become forces of subversion. The identity resulting from this ... Read more
This volume investigates modes of the reception, rewriting, and appropriation of the gothic and the fantastic in Italy in the late nineteenth century and the second half of the twentieth century. It articulates the ways in which Italian writers both undermined the narrative spaces created by realist narration and introduced agnoseological dimension centered on a disempowered and disjointed subjectivity. It argues that both in their breaking of nineteenth- and twentieth-century aesthetic and literary paradigms and in their radical questioning of personal, collective, ideological, and literary identities, the gothic and the fantastic become forces of subversion. The identity resulting from this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Condition
New
Weight
540 g
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473537
SKU
V9781611473537
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About Francesca Billiani (Ed.)
Francesca Billiani is a lecturer in Italian studies at the University of Manchester. Gigliola Sulis is a lecturer in Italian literature at the University of Leeds.
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