LEADER 03733nam 2200661 450 001 9910455472003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-02267-9 010 $a9786612022678 010 $a1-4426-7610-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442676107 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004130 035 $a(EBL)4671620 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000299480 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204760 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299480 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10242086 035 $a(PQKB)10304123 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600319 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254854 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671620 035 $a(DE-B1597)464562 035 $a(OCoLC)944178073 035 $a(OCoLC)999360875 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442676107 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671620 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257325 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL202267 035 $a(OCoLC)666912443 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004130 100 $a20160921h20022002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the shadow of the mammoth $eItalo Svevo and the emergence of modernism /$fGiuliana Minghelli 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2002. 210 4$d©2002 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 225 0 $aToronto Italian Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-3638-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Between Darwinian Origins and Modernist Ends: Svevo's Allegory of Symbiosis -- $t2. Of Artists, Women, and Jews: Svevo and the Modernist Contamination -- $t3. Between Darwinism and Dreams: The Stories of Alfonso and Annetta in Una Vita -- $t4. The Crying of the Statues: Art and Women in Senilità -- $t5. Leading the Pedagogue by the Hand -- $t6. Out of the Shadow of the Mammoth: Zeno and the Story of the Other -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe writings of Italo Svevo (1861-1928), who was a pioneer of the modernist novel in Italy, are being revived in both Italian and English. Giuliana Minghelli's In the Shadow of the Mammoth uses Svevo's parodic Darwinian fable of the prehistoric encounter between the weak and 'unfinished' man and an incommensurable other to reassess his eccentric contribution to 20th century literature in works like As a Man Grows Older and Confessions of Zeno. Svevo's fiction displaces the heroic strain in Modernism, revealing the self-construction of the subject as an ongoing symbiosis with otherness.Minghelli situates Svevo's work in its cultural context, especially in relation to the writings of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Otto Weininger, and Italian contemporaries such as Giacomo Debenedetti. Working at the intersection of post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and gender and postcolonial theories, Minghelli performs a series of close readings of Svevo's novels and short stories, exploring the construction of self as a constant contamination with the world and the other, one that consciously subverts accepted narratives of evolutionary progress, gender binarism, or national and racial belonging. 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zItaly 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a853/.8 700 $aMinghelli$b Giuliana$01044456 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455472003321 996 $aIn the shadow of the mammoth$92470120 997 $aUNINA