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Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel by Silvia Valisa (Hardback, 2014)

Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal characters and narratives of seven important Italian vels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi (1827) to Elsa Morante's Aracoeli (1982). Silvia Valisa's invative approach focuses on the tensions between the characters and the gender ideologies that surround them, and the ways in which this dissonance exposes the ideological and epistemological structures of the modern vel. A provocative account of the intersection between gender, narrative, and epistemology that draws on the work of Georg Lukacs, Barbara Spackman, and Teresa de Lauretis, this volume offers an intriguing new approach to investigating the nature of fiction.

Place of Publication
Toronto
Series Title
Toronto Italian Studies
Author Biography
Silvia Valisa is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University.
Date of Publication
06/11/2014
Country of Publication
Canada

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