1st Edition

Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

By Deborah Amberson Copyright 2012
    186 Pages
    by Routledge

    186 Pages
    by Routledge

    Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature investigates the central nexus in the work of Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda and considers it as evidence of a programmatic attempt to renegotiate human embodiment in order to validate an alternate space of lived corporeality.

    Introduction: Three Giraffes in Italy's Literary Garden 1. Corporeal Revolutions: Interrogating Modern and Modernist Embodiment 2. Corporeal Arrhythmia: Svevo's Stylistics of Limping and Potentiality 3. Blind Refusal: Tozzi's Stylistic Phenomenology of Hypersensitivity 4. Bodies, Borders and the Offended Self: Gadda's Stylistic Ethics of Misogyny 5. Conclusion: Italian Giraffes, Italian Bodies

    Biography

    Deborah Amberson