Chapter Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D'Annunzio's "La Vergine Orsola"

• Yazar: Barisonzi, Michela (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Florence Firenze University Press 2022
• Seri Bilgileri: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
• Konular: Literature & literary studies; D'Annunzio; Female Representation; Rape; Violence
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Özet

This contribution discusses the representation of rape and violence against women in late 19th century Italian literature. In doing so, I focus on a short story, La Vergine Orsola, initially written by Gabriele D'Annunzio in 1884 as part of a short story collection titled Il Libro delle Vergini, later re-published in 1902 in Le Novelle della Pescara. This contribution looks at how the idea of rape is used in this short story as a narrative escamotage to bring to the attention of the reader the question of female entitlement to sexual desire as part of a social critique that D'Annunzio brings forward in his fin-de-siècle novels and short stories.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (24 p.)

ISBN

978-88-5518-597-4.09
9788855185974

Erişim

Open Access