Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature - Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi Carlo Emilio

Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature investigates the central nexus in the work of Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda and considers it as evidence of a programmatic attempt to renegotiate human embodiment in order to validate an alternate space of lived corporeality.

Sommario

Introduction: Three Giraffes in Italy's Literary Garden 1. Corporeal Revolutions: Interrogating Modern and Modernist Embodiment 2. Corporeal Arrhythmia: Svevo's Stylistics of Limping and Potentiality 3. Blind Refusal: Tozzi's Stylistic Phenomenology of Hypersensitivity 4. Bodies, Borders and the Offended Self: Gadda's Stylistic Ethics of Misogyny 5. Conclusion: Italian Giraffes, Italian Bodies

Info autore

Deborah Amberson

Riassunto

Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature investigates the central nexus in the work of Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda and considers it as evidence of a programmatic attempt to renegotiate human embodiment in order to validate an alternate space of lived corporeality.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Deborah Amberson, Amberson Deborah
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367602536
• ISBN: 978-0-367-60253-6
• Pagine: 186
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Italian, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, italo;svevo