The Italian Gothic and Fantastic - Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions

This volume investigates modes of the reception, rewriting, and appropriation of the gothic and the fantastic in Italy in the late nineteenth century and the second half ofthe twentieth century. It articulates the ways in which Italian writers both undermined the narrative spaces created by realist narration and introduced agnoseological dimension centered on a disempowered and disjointed subjectivity. It argues that both in their breaking of nineteenth- and twentieth-century aesthetic and literary paradigms and in their radical questioning of personal, collective, ideological, and literary identities, the gothic and the fantastic become forces of subversion.

About the author

Francesca Billiani is a lecturer in Italian studies at the University of Manchester.

Gigliola Sulis is a lecturer in Italian literature at the University of Leeds.

Product details

• Authors: Francesca Billiani
• Assisted by: Francesca Billiani (Editor), Gigliola Sulis (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611473537
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-353-7
• No. of pages: 243
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 167 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies; Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies; The Fairleigh Dickinson Univer
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies