Disrupted Narratives
Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2012
Book
Hardback
198 pages
978-1-907975-38-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines Italo Svevo, Giorgio Pressburger and Giuliana Morandini, all make use of individual 'infected' or suppressed voices within their texts which unfold through illness, silence and identity to cast doubt on a more dominant narrative standpoint.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-907975-38-7 (9781907975387)
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07/2017
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07/2017
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Person
Emma Bond
Content
When the lights of health go down': Narratives in Negative 1. On the Kristevan Semiotic: Language, Desire and Subjectivity 2. Hidden Voices: Revelatory Female Illness in Italo Svevo's Senilita and La coscienza di Zeno 3. Intimacy in Illness and Silence: Giorgio Pressburger's 'La legge degli spazi bianchi' and 'Vera' 4. Street-haunting': Reclaiming the Semiotic in Giuliana Morandini's Caffe Specchi 5. Clues, Traces and Symptoms of the Intimate: Towards a 'Morellization' of the Ill Voice