Author: Gianna Patriarca
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550710014
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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This book is the first part of Gianna Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women. Winner of the Milton Acorn award, the collection remains popular today almost 20 years after it was first published.
Author: Gianna Patriarca
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550710960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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This is the third book of a trilogy of poetry on what the poet calls 'Italian women' and other tragedies. It is a must for every Italian North American woman. Gianna Patriarca is the author of two other collections: Italian women and other tragedies (1994) and Daughters for sale (1997).
Author: Patriarca, Gianna
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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Author: Stephanie Laggini Fiore
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527551857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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The Heroic Female: Redefining the Role of the Heroine in the Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri fills a void in critical inquiry on the works of eighteenth-century tragedian Vittorio Alfieri – perhaps the most important figure of the Italian Enlightenment – by exploring in depth the often neglected female characters and their function within the tragic structure. In this re-reading of the Alfierian tragedies, the author redefines the role of the heroine, and challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character and orient her to an abstract ideal characterized by fragility and tragic victimization. The author argues persuasively that, in Alfieri’s search for psychological realism, he undermines traditional assumptions of gender roles by his modern portrayal of the tragic characters. The heroine’s different orientation towards reality endows her with intuitive and intelligent reasoning that contradicts eighteenth-century views of women as catalysts of anarchy and disorder. Alfieri’s tragic heroines are represented also as surprisingly independent and powerful. The resultant image of determined, active, and intelligent women refutes the traditional critical view. In exploring Vittorio Alfieri’s pre-modern sensibilities in the representation of his tragic heroines, this book is an important contribution to the growing body of critical works that study the representation of gender in post-Renaissance and pre-modern Italian literature. This book will be of particular interest to: scholars of Italian literature, especially the Enlightenment and Romantic periods; scholars of 18th-century European, American and other literatures; scholars of 18th-century history and sociology; and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies scholars.
Author: Anthony Julian Tamburri
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791439166
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Reexamines the notion of the "hyphenate writer," and offers a specific reading strategy that we may consider the Italian/American writer in the age of semiotics, poststructuralism, and the like.
Author: Gianna Patriarca
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ISBN: 9781550714104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Linda M. Morra
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000811239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries. From early colonial texts by Frances Brooke, to settler texts by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, to more contemporary texts by Jane Rule, Alice Munro, Joshua Whitehead, Ivan Coyote, and others, this volume will introduce readers to how gender and sexuality have been variably conceived in Canada and the work they perform across multiple genres. Calling upon recent currents of gender theory and examining the composition, structure, and history of selected literary texts—that is, the “literary sediments” that have accumulated over centuries—readers of this book will explore how those representations shift over time. By examining literature in Canada in relation to crucial cultural, political, and historical contexts, readers will better apprehend why that literature has significantly transformed and broadened to address racialized and fluid identities that continue to challenge and disrupt any stable notion of gendered and sexualized identity today.
Author: Anthony Julian Tamburri
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611476550
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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This book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. It also discusses other social and cultural issues that pertain to Italian Americana. Section two consists of six chapters, each discussing a specific author; three dedicated to prose (Pietro di Donato, Mario Puzo, Luigi Barzini), three dedicated to poetry (Joseph Tusiani, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Rina Ferrarelli). Section three examines the current state of criticism dedicated to Italian/American literature, the second part focusing in on a number of specific works.
Author: Theresa Carilli
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761830405
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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This anthology has a cultural focus and addresses issues of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
Author: Joseph Pivato
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 1550713132
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Before Pier Giorgio Di Cicco was made Poet Laureate of Toronto (2004-2007), he was instrumental in the establishment of Italian-Canadian literature as a phenomenon in Canadian culture. He achieved this through his own impressive list of publications such as The Tough Romance (1979) and Virgin Science (1986). The essays in this volume examine Di Cicco's publications in this pluralistic social context. The contributors include Linda Hutcheon, Mary di Michele, George Elliott Clarke, Domenic Beneventi, Licia Canton, Joshua Lovelace, Stacey Gibson, Jim Zucchero, Clea McDougall and Joseph Pivato. There is also an interview and a useful bibliography.
