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Grazia Deledda's novels and short stories contain the gradations of Modernist painting. By investigating Deledda's relationship with the visual arts and the resulting painterly aesthetic of her colorful and nuanced worlds, this work seeks to present an articulated and rich literary panorama situated between literature and pictorial art.
List of contents
Section I: From the Language of the Painters of the
Secessione Romana to Ignacio Zuloaga's Chromatism
Chapter 1: From the "Anticlassical"
Barbagia to the "Gerusalemme dell'arte": The Representation of the Island in the Works of Grazia Deledda. Between Primitivism and the Aesthetics of the Secessions
Dino MancaChapter 2: Deledda, Modernism, Primitivism, and Contemporary Art
Giuliana AlteaChapter 3: Grazia Deledda's Landscape Writings: Ignacio Zuloaga's Pictorial Suggestions in "L'uomo nuovo" and "Lasciare o prendere?"
Ombretta FrauSection II: The Long Journey of Deledda's Narratives from Impressionism to Art Déco
Chapter 4: Impressionist Style in Deledda's Landscapes
Clara Incani CartaChapter 5: An Explorer's "Soul [...] Enlightened by the Shining Art": Grazia Deledda's Epistemology as a Traveller Through Observation, Discourse, and Image
Tania MancaSection III: The
Chiaroscuro of Deledda's Short Stories
Chapter 6: The Space Between: Deledda's Doors as Frames for Visual and Symbolic Landscapes
Marella Feltrin-MorrisChapter 7: "The Feast of Christ" and the Practice of Forgiveness According to Grazia Deledda
Stefania LucamanteSection IV: Artistic Connections across Continents: Deledda and Mansfield, Morisot, Cather, Wharton
Chapter 8: Between Affinity and Sisterhood: Nature and Art in Grazia Deledda's Visual Writing
Angela GuisoChapter 9: Landscapes of Desolation: Philosophical Pessimism in Grazia Deledda's
Canne al vento (1913) and Edith Wharton's
Ethan Frome (1911)
Maria Novella MercuriChapter 10: Marianna Sirca, Alexandra Bergson, and Marie Tovesky Shabata: Understanding Grazia Deledda and Willa Cather's Female Protagonists through Berthe Morisot's Impressionist Paintings
Virginia A. Picchietti
About the author
Angela Guiso is an independent scholar, literary critic, and author of many works.
Virginia A. Picchietti is professor of Italian and women's and gender studies at the University of Scranton.
Summary
Grazia Deledda’s novels and short stories contain the gradations of Modernist painting. By investigating Deledda’s relationship with the visual arts and the resulting painterly aesthetic of her colorful and nuanced worlds, this work seeks to present an articulated and rich literary panorama situated between literature and pictorial art.
