Chapter Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s “La Vergine Orsola”
dc.contributor.author | Barisonzi, Michela | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-15T20:08:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-15T20:08:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier | ONIX_20220915_9788855185974_128 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2420-8361 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58332 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies | |
dc.subject.other | D’Annunzio | |
dc.subject.other | Female Representation | |
dc.subject.other | Rape | |
dc.subject.other | Violence | |
dc.title | Chapter Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s “La Vergine Orsola” | |
dc.type | chapter | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4.09 | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9788855185974 | |
oapen.series.number | 66 | |
oapen.pages | 24 | |
oapen.place.publication | Florence |