Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Virginia Picchietti, Laura A. Salsini.
• Editors: Picchietti, Virginia; Salsini, Laura A
• Other Names: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Broken Language of High Poetry: Agency and Emotion in Teresino by Vivian Lamarque; Enrico Minardi -- 3. Re-Appropriation for a New Symbolic Order: The Search for Identity in the Poetry of Armanda Guiducci, Maria Luisa Spaziani and Oliva Gualtieri Bernardi; Rosa Cuda.-PART II: CINEMA -- 4. Mambo and Maggiorate: Italian Female Stardom of the 1950s; Elisa Uffreduzzi -- 5. Mina: Narrative and Cinematic Spectacle of the Italian Woman of the Early 1960s; Paola Valentini -- 6. Beyond the Male Gaze: Conceiving the ‘Fourth Gaze’ in La bestia nel cuore; Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- PART III: THEATRE -- 7. From Fairy Tale to Hysteria: Women in Italian Theatre in the Early 1950s; Daniela Cavallero -- 8. Telling Lives, Staging Silences: Dacia Mariani's Biographical Theater; Alex Standen -- 9. Staging the (Sur)real World: Soledad Agresti’s Theater of Women; Raffaele Furno.-PART IV: PROSE -- 10.Writing History, Trauma, and the (Dis/Re)Appearance of the Body in Cutrufelli's La briganta; Sandra Walters -- 11.The Treasure Chest and the Talisman: Writing between Reality and Myth in Maria Giacobbe ; Angela Guiso -- 12.Space and Sexualization in the Fin de Siècle Italian Female Narrative; Anna Marchioni Cucchiella -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 809.04; Literature; Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; European Culture; European Cinema; English literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Ethnology -- Europe; Motion pictures -- European influences; Literature, Modern -- 20th century; Social Science -- General; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Cultural studies; Films, cinema; Literary studies: from c 1900; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319408356; 9783319408354
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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