Studies in modern Italian fiction
By: Maria Grazia Di Paolo ; preface by Joseph Tusiani
Contributors: Tusiani, Joseph, 1924- author of introduction, etc
Edition: [1st edition].
Publisher: Legas.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Mineola, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781939693167
Subjects: Italian fiction; History and criticism
Description: This volume is a collection of articles on major Italian authors of the twentieth century. The main focus of professor DiPaolo's research, as shown here, is a critique of traditional roles and conventional representation of women, explored within the patriarchal symbolic (see in particular the articles on Pirandello, Lampedusa, and Fenoglio). As assembled here, this volume offers also an engaging and enlightening analysis of images in the context of the author's related literary universe. Significant examples are the articles on D'Annunzio, Betti, Silone, and Visconti.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English; Preface in Italian.
Table of contents: title: Preface/prefazione; title: Introductory note; title: D'Annunzio's Giuliana: mistress and muse; title: D'Annunzio's Icarian mythopoesis; title: Dichotomy of expectations in Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli; title: Silone's Celestino V and Fabula of the evolution of a soul; title: Women's marginality and self-obliteration in some of Pirandello's novelle; title: For a new reading of Lampedusa's "Lighea"; title: Beppa Fenoglio fra segno e impegno; title: Shakespearean reminiscences in Betti's theatre: sin and retribution; title: Fulvia, Fenoglio's muse: despair and transcendence; title: Beppe Fenoglio: the author's intentions.