1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456808703321

Autore

Blum Cinzia Sartini

Titolo

Rewriting the journey in contemporary Italian literature : figures of subjectivity in progress / / Cinzia Sartini Blum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-8901-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

850.9/928709045

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, Italian - History and criticism

Italian literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Italian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Emigration and immigration in literature

Displacement (Psychology) in literature

Travel in literature

Feminism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Beyond the End of the Journey -- Chapter 2. Gradiva's Journey: Genealogy of a Feminist Trope -- Chapter 3. Biancamaria Frabotta's Lead: From fuga to viandanza -- Chapter 4. Walking in the Shoes of Another: Dacia Maraini's Departures and Returns -- Chapter 5. Exile as the Ultimate Utopia: Toni Maraini's vivere vagabondo -- Chapter 6. Bridging Cultures: Figures of Mediation -- Conclusion: Toward an Interactive Universalism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

The mobility of women is a central issue in feminist analysis of literary works and historical periods. Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature explores the concept of the journey from feminist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial perspectives, in order to offer an alternative understanding of "moving." Cinzia Sartini Blum examines



the new literature of migration in Italian and journeys in the works of Biancamaria Frabotta, Dacia Maraini, Toni Maraini, and Maria Pace Ottieri, to demonstrate that women writers and migrant authors in contemporary Italy present journeys as events that are beyond heroic modern exploration and postmodern fragmentation.Using the mythical figure of Gradiva, Blum shows how contemporary Italian women writers have reinvented Gradiva to reveal subjectivities that challenge and overcome the postmodern melancholia and nihilism prevalent in contemporary male writers and thinkers. She also considers the connection between metaphorical and literal mobility, the role of the intellectual as cultural intermediary, the roles of women in cultural encounters within mass migrations, and how migrancy is a way of being in the postcolonial world.An impeccable piece of original scholarship, Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature will be of interest to feminist, literary, and postcolonial scholars.

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Record Nr.

UNISA996387272203316

Autore

Langley Thomas

Titolo

Langley 1636 [[electronic resource] ] : a new almanack and prognostication for the yeere of our Lord God 1636 and from the creation 5598, being bissextill or leap yeere : composed for the meridian of the ancient and famous towne of Shrewsbury, & generally for al Great Brittain / / by Thomas Langley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by T.C. for the Company of Stationers, [1636]

Descrizione fisica

[50] p. : ill

Soggetti

Almanacs, English

Ephemerides

Astrology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Second part has special t.p.

Date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

Signatures: [pi]² A-C⁸.

Title within illustrated border.



Imperfect: slightly faded, with some loss of print.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018