In the shadow of the mammoth : Italo Svevo and the emergence of modernism /
"In this work Giuliana Minghelli examines Svevo's unique contribution to twentieth-century literature within the framework of his parodic Darwinian fables of the prehistoric encounter between the weak and 'unfinished' man and the incommensurable 'other.' In looking at s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2002.
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Colección: | Toronto Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Between Darwinian origins and modernist ends : Svevo's allegory of symbiosis
- 2. Of artists, women, and Jews : Svevo and the modernist contamination
- 3. Between Darwinism and dreams : the stories of Alfonso and Annetta in Una vita
- 4. The crying of the statues : art and women in Senilita
- 5. Leading the pedagogue by the hand
- 6. Out of the shadow of the mammoth : Zeno and the story of the other.