LEADER 03879nam 2200745 450 001 9910781690903321 005 20230403051322.0 010 $a1-4426-6024-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442660243 035 $a(CKB)2550000000042446 035 $a(OCoLC)755882799 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10488848 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000550897 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11355084 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550897 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10509657 035 $a(PQKB)10963925 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00227062 035 $a(CEL)436459 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669652 035 $a(DE-B1597)465259 035 $a(OCoLC)1004879951 035 $a(OCoLC)944178503 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442660243 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669652 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256174 035 $a(OCoLC)958557858 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105939 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000042446 100 $a20160921h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter words $esuicide and authorship in twentieth-century Italy /$fElizabeth Leake 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian Studies 311 $a0-8020-9279-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : the death of the author -- The posthumous author : Guido Morselli, Giuseppe Rensi, Jacques Monod -- The corpus and the corpse : Amelia Rosselli, Jacques Derrida, Sylvia Plath, Sarah Kofman -- The post-biological author : Cesare Pavese, Gianni Vattimo, Emanuele Severino -- Commemoration and erasure : Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, Avishai Margalit -- Postscript : learning from the dead. 330 $aAfter Words investigates the ways in which the suicide of a writer informs critical interpretations of his or her works. Suicide is a revision as well as a form of authorship, both on the part of the author, who has written his/her final scene and revised the 'natural' course of his/her life, and on the part of the reader, who must make sense of this final act of writing.Focusing on four twentieth-century Italian writers (Guido Morselli, Amelia Rosselli, Cesare Pavese, and Primo Levi), Elizabeth Leake examines their personal correspondence, diaries, and obituaries as well as popular and academic commemorative writings about them and their works in order to elucidate the ramifications of their suicides for their readership. Arguing that authorial suicide points to the limitations of those critical stances that exclude the author from the practice of reading, Leake's insightful re-reading of these authors and their texts shows that in the aftermath of suicide, an author's life and death themselves become texts to be read. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aSuicide and literature$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSuicide victims' writings, Italian$xHistory and criticism 606 $aItalian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthors, Italian$y20th century$xSuicidal behavior 606 $aAuthors and readers$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aItaly$2fast 615 0$aSuicide and literature$xHistory 615 0$aSuicide victims' writings, Italian$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aItalian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthors, Italian$xSuicidal behavior. 615 0$aAuthors and readers$xHistory 676 $a850.9/3561 700 $aLeake$b Elizabeth$0759713 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781690903321 996 $aAfter words$93686163 997 $aUNINA