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Monsters in the Italian literary imagination / edited by Keala Jewell.
| Other author | Jewell, Keala Jane. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, ©2001. |
| Description | 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Creatures of difference: myths of monstrosity in Savinio's La nostra anima / Keala Jewell -- "Mon maître, mon monstre": Primo Levi and monstrous science / Nancy Harrowitz -- Monstrous murder: serial killers and detectives in contemporary Italian fiction / Ellen Nerenberg -- The mother of all horror: witches, gender, and the films of Dario Argento / Jacqueline Reich -- Dante's "dolce serena" and the monstrosity of the female body / Naomi Yavneh -- "A la tetta de la madre s'apprende": the monstrous nurse in Dante's Grammar of selfhood / Gary P. Cestaro -- Incredible sex: witches, demons, and giants in the early modern imagination / Walter Stephens -- Monstrous movements and metaphors in Dante's Divine comedy / Virginia Jewiss -- Monstrous language, monstrous bodies: Bartolotti's Macharonea medicinalis / Antonella Ansani -- Girolamo Parabosco's L'Hermafrodito: an irregular Commedia regolare / Suzanne Magnanini -- Ogres and fools: on the cultural margins of the Seicento / Nancy L. Canepa -- Reforming the monster: Manzoni and the grotesque / Robert S. Dombroski -- The monster as a refugee / Ginevra Bompiani -- Per speculum melancholiae: the awakening of reason engenders monsters / Massimo Riva -- Monstrous knowledge / Barbara Spackman. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00010959 |
| ISBN | 0814328385 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PQ4053.M66 M66 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |