Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination,9780814328385

Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination

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ISBN13: 9780814328385
ISBN10: 0814328385
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher(s): Wayne State Univ Pr
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Summary

A culture defines monsters against what is essentially thought of as human. Creatures such as the harpy, the siren, the witch, and the half-human all threaten to destroy our sense of power and intelligence and usurp our human consciousness. In this way, monster myths actually work to define a culture's definition of what is human. In Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination, a broad range of scholars examine the monster in Italian culture and its evolution from the medieval period to the twentieth century.

Editor Keala Jewell explores how Italian culture juxtaposes the powers of the monster against the human. The essays in this volume engage a wide variety of philological, feminist, and psychoanalytical approaches and examine monstrous figures from the medieval to postmodern periods. They each share a critical interest in how monsters reflect a culture's dominant ideologies.

Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination will interest scholars and students of literary theory and criticism, gender studies, cultural studies, art, and Italian studies.

Author Biography

Keala Jewell is an associate professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 7(2)
Introduction: Monsters and Discourse on the Human 9(18)
Keala Jewell
Part 1: Modern Horrors
Creatures of Difference: Myths of Monstrosity in Savinio's La nostra anima
27(24)
Keala Jewell
``Mon maitre, mon monstre'': Primo Levi and Monstrous Science
51(14)
Nancy Harrowitz
Monstrous Murder: Serial Killers and Detectives in Contemporary Italian Fiction
65(24)
Ellen Nerenberg
The Mother of All Horror: Witches, Gender, and the Films of Dario Argento
89(20)
Jacqueline Reich
Part 2: Monsters and Conception
Dante's ``dolce serena'' and the Monstrosity of the Female Body
109(28)
Naomi Yavneh
``A la tetta de la madre s'apprende'': The Monstrous Nurse in Dante's Grammar of Selfhood
137(16)
Gary P. Cestaro
Incredible Sex: Witches, Demons, and Giants in the Early Modern Imagination
153(26)
Walter Stephens
Part 3: Monsters and Poetics
Monstrous Movements and Metaphors in Dante's Divine Comedy
179(12)
Virginia Jewiss
Monstrous Language, Monstrous Bodies: Bartolotti's Macharonea Medicinalis
191(12)
Antonella Ansani
Girolamo Parabosco's L'Hermafrodito: An Irregular Commedia Regolare
203(19)
Suzanne Magnanini
Ogres and Fools: On the Cultural Margins of the Seicento
222(25)
Nancy L. Canepa
Reforming the Monster: Manzoni and the Grotesque
247(18)
Robert S. Dombroski
Part 4: The Monster as Discourse
The Monster as a Refugee
265(14)
Ginevra Bompiani
Per Speculum Melancholiae: The Awakening of Reason Engenders Monsters
279(18)
Massimo Riva
Monstrous Knowledge
297(14)
Barbara Spackman
Contributors 311(4)
Index 315

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