Italian women writers from the Renaissance to the present : revising the canon /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Marotti, Maria Ornella. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1996] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Revising the Canon: Italian Women Writers
- Part I. Canon Formation
- 1. Women Writers and the Canon in Contemporary Italy
- 2. From One Closet to Another? Feminism, Literary Archaeology, and the Canon
- 3. Italian "Difference Theory": A New Canon?
- Part II. Renaissance Women: Rethinking the Canon
- 4. Renaissance Women Defending Women: Arguments Against Patriarchy
- 5. Selling the Self, or the Epistolary Production of Renaissance Courtesans
- Part III. At the Turn of the Century: Women Writers at the Margins of the Canon
- 6. Double Marginality: Matilde Serao and the Politics of Ambiguity
- 7. The Diaries of Sibilla Aleramo: Constructing Female Subjectivity
- 8. Narrative Voice and the Regional Experience: Redefining Female Images in the Works of Maria Messina
- Part IV. Contemporary Women Writers: Toward a New Canon
- 9. Brushing Benjamin Against the Grain: Elsa Morante and the Jetzeit of Marginal History
- 10. From Genealogy to Gynealogy and Beyond: Fausta Cialente's Le Quattro Ragazze Wieselberger
- 11. Ethnic Matriarchy: Fabrizia Ramondino's Neapolitan World
- 12. Mythic Revisionism: Women Poets and Philosophers in Italy Today
- Part V. Women as Filmmakers: Images of Women/Images by Women/Images for Women
- 13. Monica Vitti: The Image and the Word
- 14. Signifying the Holocaust: Liliana Cavani's Portiere di notte