Chapter Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D'Annunzio's "La Vergine Orsola"
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...
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| Format: | Électronique Chapitre de livre |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Florence
Firenze University Press
2022
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| Collection: | Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
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| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 electronic resource (24 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-88-5518-597-4.09 9788855185974 |
| Accès: | Open Access |