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Title:

The Italian gothic and fantastic : encounters and rewritings of narrative traditions / edited by Francesca Billiani and Gigliola Sulis.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

243 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Fantasy literature, Italian--History and criticism--Congresses.
Italian literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Italian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Fantastic, The, in literature.
Gothic literature--Italy.

Other Authors:

Billiani, Francesca. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006051856
Sulis, Gigliola. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001154464

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Italian gothic and fantastic : an inquiry into the notions of literary and cultural traditions (1869-1997) / Francesca Billiani -- Critical coordinates. The boundaries of the fantastic / Remo Ceserani -- Anxiety-free : rereadings of the Freudian uncanny / Monica Farnetti -- Nineteenth-century experimentations. The eye that kills : notes on a fantastic theme / Vittorio Roda -- A portrait of the writer as a somnambule : reflections on verismo and phantasmagoria in Verga and Capuana / Angelo M. Mangini -- Sensation, seduction, and the supernatural : Fogazzaro's Malombra / Ann Hallamore Caesar -- From domestic to dramatic : Matilde Serco's use of the gothic / Ursula Fanning -- The female fantastic in the twentieth century. Fantasy, narrative, and the natural world in Anna Maria Ortese / Sharon Wood -- An inquiry into modality and genre : reconsidering L'Iguana by Anna Maria Ortese / Daniela La Penna -- Excessively fantastic? : Rossana Ombres's Serenata / Danielle Hipkins -- Paola Capriolo's mythic fantasies / Rita Wilson.

ISBN:

0838641261
9780838641262

OCLC:

(OCoLC)133465466

LCCN:

2007019740

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)