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9781557530912

Plotting the Past

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    9781557530912

  • ISBN10:

    1557530912

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-11-01
  • Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr
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Summary

"Plotting the Past stands out as a serious work marked by sharp analytical skills and an unusual breadth of subject matter encompassing questions of genre and ideology that are central to present-day critical discourses."-Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian "...Coletta has given us a book that is engaging, challenging, and astute. For its mature historical sense and theoretical refinement, Plotting the Past deserves high praise."-CLIO

Author Biography

Cristina Della Coletta is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Historical Novel and the Dialectics of Genrep. 1
Alessandro Manzoni's J'accuse: Literary Debates, the Essay Del romanzo storico, and a Theory of Creative Historiographyp. 19
Historical Reconfigurations and the Ideology of Desire: Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardop. 71
Fiction and Women's History: Elsa Morante's La Storiap. 117
Transhistorical Narratives: The Apocalypse and the Carnival in Umberto Eco's Il nome della rosap. 153
Conclusionp. 195
Appendixp. 199
Notesp. 215
Works Citedp. 247
Indexp. 261
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