The Italian gothic and fantastic encounters and rewritings of narrative traditions
By: edited by Francesca Billiani and Gigliola Sulis.
Contributors: Billiani, Francesca.; Sulis, Gigliola.
Publisher: Madison [NJ]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838641262
Subjects: Fantasy literature, Italian -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Italian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Fantastic, The, in literature; Gothic literature -- Italy
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Italian gothic and fantastic: an inquiry into the notions of literary and cultural traditions (1869-1997) / Francesca Billiani; title: Critical coordinates: the boundaries of the fantastic / Remo Ceserani; title: Anxiety-free: rereadings of the Freudian "uncanny" / Monica Farnetti; title: Nineteenth-century experimentations: the eye that kills: notes on a fantastic theme / Vittorio Roda; title: A portrait of the writer as a somnambule: reflections on verismo and phantasmagoria in Verga and Capuana /  Angelo M. Mangini; title: Sensation, seduction, and the supernatural: Fogazzaro's Malombra; title: Ann Hallamore Caesar; title: From domestic to dramatic: Matilde Serco's use of the gothic / Ursula Fanning; title: The female fantastic in the twentieth century: fantasy, narrative, and the natural world in Anna Maria Ortese / Sharon Wood; title: An inquiry into modality and genre: reconsidering L'Iguana by Anna Maria Ortese / Daniela La Penna; title: Excessively fantastic?: Rossana Ombres's Serenata / Danielle Hipkins.