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Title The feminist encyclopedia of Italian literature / edited by Rinaldina Russell
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 402 pages)
Summary Over the last 20 years, there has been an increasing interest in feminist views of the Italian literary tradition. While feminist theory and methodology have been accepted by the academic community in the U.S., the situation is very different in Italy, where such work has been done largely outside the academy. Among nonspecialists, knowledge of feminist approaches to Italian literature, and even of the existence of Italian women writers, remains scant. This reference work, the first of its kind on Italian literature, is a companion volume for all who wish to investigate Italian literary culture and writings, both by women and by men, in light of feminist theory. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for authors, schools, movements, genres and forms, figures and types, and similar topics related to Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and summarizes feminist thought on the subject. Entries provide brief bibliographies, and the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography of major studies. This volume covers eight centuries of Italian literature, from the Middle Ages to the present. Included are entries for major canonical male authors, such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as for female writers such as Lucrezia Marinella and Gianna Manzini. These entries discuss how the authors have shaped the image of women in Italian literature and how feminist criticism has responded to their works. Entries are also provided for various schools and movements, such as deconstruction, Marxism, and new historicism; for genres and forms, such as the epic, devotional works, and misogynistic literature; for figures and types, such as the enchantress, the witch, and the shepherdess; and for numerous other topics. Each entry is written by an expert contributor, summarizes the relationship of the topic to feminist thought, and includes a brief bibliography. The volume closes with a selected general bibliography of major studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377) and index
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Subject Italian literature -- Women authors -- Dictionaries
Women in literature -- Dictionaries
Feminism in literature -- Dictionaries
Italian literature -- Dictionaries
Women authors, Italian -- Dictionaries
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Women authors, Italian
Italian literature
Feminism in literature
Italian literature -- Women authors
Women in literature
Frauenliteratur
Geschichte
Wörterbuch
Feminisme.
Letterkunde.
Italiaans.
Littérature italienne -- Dictionnaires.
Littérature italienne -- Femmes écrivains.
Femmes -- Dans la littérature.
Italienisch.
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
Author Russell, Rinaldina.
ISBN 0313294356
9780313294358
0313033285
9780313033285
9781429473378
1429473371