1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460091403321

Autore

Valisa Silvia <1971->

Titolo

Gender, narrative, and dissonance in the modern Italian novel / / Silvia Valisa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-1975-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

853/.7093521

Soggetti

Italian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Italian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Gender identity in literature

Characters and characteristics in literature

Women 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

"A somewhat unusual nun" : writing gender in I promessi sposi -- The epistemology of the young woman : analysis and revelation in three fin-de-siècle novels -- The mule and the ghost : gender, realism, and the fantastic in Giovanni Verga and Marchesa Colombi -- Intellectual experiments : the philosopher and the housewife -- A poetics of rejection : Elsa Morante and the gender of the real -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi (1827) to Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli (1982).Silvia Valisa’s innovative approach focuses on the tensions between the characters and the gender ideologies that surround them, and the ways in which this dissonance exposes the ideological and epistemological structures of the modern novel. A provocative account of the intersection between gender,



narrative, and epistemology that draws on the work of Georg Lukács, Barbara Spackman, and Teresa de Lauretis, this volume offers an intriguing new approach to investigating the nature of fiction.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780108203321

Autore

Gainsborough Martin <1966->

Titolo

Changing political economy of Vietnam [[electronic resource] ] : the case of Ho Chi Minh City / / Martin Gainsborough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge Curzon, 2003

ISBN

1-134-20163-X

0-415-36970-3

1-280-07042-0

0-203-22231-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p. ) : ill

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon research on Southeast Asia ; ; 5

Disciplina

330.9597

Soggetti

Decentralization in government - Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) Economic policy

Vietnam Economic policy 1975-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. From Plan to Market: The Logic of Decentralisation 2. In Business: The Hollowing Out of The State Sector 3. Patterns of Circulation: Democratic Centralism Under Strain 4. Institutional Conflict: The City, The Centre and The Lower Levels 5. The Politics of Economic Decentralisation: The Tamexco and Minh Phung-Epco Cases 6. Rethinking Reform: Property Rights and The Dynamics of Change

Sommario/riassunto

This text examines the fortunes of Ho Chi Minh City since it fell to the communists in 1975, detailing how the state has become commercialised while at the same time considerable power is retained by the central government. It considers the myriad informal practices which dominate business and political life.