Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space

by Danielle Hipkins

Overview

Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367603823
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Danielle E. Hipkins is a lecturer in Italian at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

List of Abbreviations x

Note on Translations xi

Introduction 1

1 An Italian Space for the Female Fantastic 11

2 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Is There Space to Write At All? The Fantastic Language of Self-Reflexivity and Inter-Textuality in Paola Capriolo's Fiction 51

3 Francesca Duranti: The International Spaces of Textual (S)exchange 123

4 Rossana Ombres: The Sacred Spaces of the 'ribellione fantastica' 168

Conclusion 209

Bibliography 215

Index 225