Disrupted Narratives
Subtitle: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781907975387
Subjects: Italian fiction, history and criticism; Diseases in literature
Description: Italo Svevo, Giorgio Pressburger and Giuliana Morandini all make use of individual 'infected' or suppressed voices which unfold through illness so as to cast doubt on a more dominant narrative standpoint. Here, Emma Bond offers a critical reading of the literary function of illness, a function related to the nature of narration itself.