The City and the Home

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_515
dc.creator	Forgetta Emanuela
dc.title	The City and the Home. Urban and Domestic Spaces in Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante and Mercè Rodoreda
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This research work aims at the reconstruction of literary spaces created by four great female authors of the twentieth century. Analysed individually or from a comparative perspective, the texts solicit a reflection on the representation of space in literature produced by women. The focus of the investigation is the dynamic contrast that, at the moment of perception, is established between the ‘internal’, and therefore subjective, dimension and the ‘external’ dimension, regulated by the social context in which the subject moves. The work consists of three parts: the first part establishes the parameters within which the research is organised; the second part investigates the process of reappropriation of the city – a place of almost exclusive male prerogative – by the protagonists of the proposed novels and their “walking down the street” as a device of spatial organisation. In the third and last part, the female perception of the domestic space is analysed. A place of female confinement par excellence, it shows, even in literature, an ambivalent character, as an expression of abuse and affection at the same time. From the ‘spatial’ reinterpretation of the proposed works, therefore, both the intimate representation of space and the historical-social evaluation of the context in which the protagonists, and their own authors, move, emerge.
dc.relation.ispartof	Library of Rassegna iberistica
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-586-5
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-06-03
dc.dateAccepted	2021-11-09
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-19
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-587-2/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8844
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9360
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-587-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-586-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	City
dc.subject	Elsa Morante
dc.subject	Home
dc.subject	Literary space
dc.subject	Maria Aurèlia Capmany
dc.subject	Mercè Rodoreda
dc.subject	Natalia Ginzburg

Monograph
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Urban and Domestic Spaces in Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante and Mercè Rodoreda

Emanuela Forgetta Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale», Italia

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abstract

This research work aims at the reconstruction of literary spaces created by four great female authors of the twentieth century. Analysed individually or from a comparative perspective, the texts solicit a reflection on the representation of space in literature produced by women. The focus of the investigation is the dynamic contrast that, at the moment of perception, is established between the ‘internal’, and therefore subjective, dimension and the ‘external’ dimension, regulated by the social context in which the subject moves. The work consists of three parts: the first part establishes the parameters within which the research is organised; the second part investigates the process of reappropriation of the city – a place of almost exclusive male prerogative – by the protagonists of the proposed novels and their “walking down the street” as a device of spatial organisation. In the third and last part, the female perception of the domestic space is analysed. A place of female confinement par excellence, it shows, even in literature, an ambivalent character, as an expression of abuse and affection at the same time. From the ‘spatial’ reinterpretation of the proposed works, therefore, both the intimate representation of space and the historical-social evaluation of the context in which the protagonists, and their own authors, move, emerge.

Published

June 3, 2022

Accepted

Nov. 9, 2021

Submitted

July 19, 2021

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-587-2

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-586-5

Keywords

Mercè Rodoreda • Home • Maria Aurèlia Capmany • Natalia Ginzburg • City • Elsa Morante • Literary space

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