num_pages: 296
description:  the Italian Women Writers/Maria O. MarottiPart Canon Formation/Canon RevisionWomen Writers and the Canon in Contemporary Italy/JoAnn CannonFrom One Closet to Another? Feminism, Literary Archaeology, and the Canon/Beverly AllenItalian "Difference Theory": A New Canon?/Renate HolubPart Renaissance Rethinking the CanonRenaissance Women Defending Arguments Against Patriarchy/Constance JordanSelling the Self, or the Epistolary Production of Renaissance Courtesans/Fiora A. BassanesePart At the Turn of the Women Writers at the Margins of the CanonDouble Matilde Serao and the Politics of Ambiguity/Nancy HarrowitzThe Diaries of Sibilla Constructing Female Subjectivity/Bernadette LucianoNarrative Voice and the Regional Redefining Female Images in the Works of Maria Messina/Elise MagistroPart Contemporary Women Toward a New CanonBrushing Benjamin Against the Elsa Morante and the "Jetzeit" of Marginal History/Maurizia BoscagliFrom Genealogy to Gynealogy and Fausta Cialente's Le Quattro Ragazze Wieselberger/Graziella ParatiEthnic Fabrizia Ramondino's Neapolitan World/Maria Ornella MarottiMythic Women Poets and Philosophers in Italy Today/Lucia RePart Women as Images of Women/Images by Women/Images for WomenMonica The Image and the Word/Marga Cottino-JonesSignifying the Liliana Cavani's Portiere di notte/Marguerite Waller
language: English
title: Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present: Revising the Canon
titlecomplete: Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present: Revising the Canon
publisher: Penn State University Press