The female fantastic
Subtitle: evolution, theories and the poetics of perversion : nomadic subjects, free play of differences and different ways of generating sounds : per un progetto di traduzione del fantastico femminile italiano dal 1880 al 1990
By: Gloria Alpini
Publisher: Aras; Aras Edizioni Universitaria
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Pesaro]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9788896378014
Other titles: Evolution, theories and the poetics of perversion; Nomadic subjects, free play of differences and different ways of generating sounds; Per un progetto di traduzione del fantastico femminile italiano del 1880 al 1990
Notes: Based on research done for the author's Ph.D. thesis at Cambridge University (July 2002).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264).

Analysis in English with original texts in Italian.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I, Evolution and theory. The fantastic : a male territory ; Fantastic representations of women and theories of the female fantastic; title: Pt. II, The female fantastic in Italy.  Matilde Serao : between the marvellous and the fantastic ; Ada Negri : the female double ; Elsa Morante : the 'unbearable lightness' of the female fantastic ; Anna Maria Ortese : the poetics of perversion ; Paola Capriolo : a postmodern poetics/politics of defamiliarization; title: Concluding remarks.