Copyright (c) 2010 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa Recent documents in Silvia Valisa en-us Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:31:02 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/14 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/14 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:21:16 PST Silvia Valisa 20th Century Italian Literature Introduction to Italian Literature http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/13 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/13 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:59:53 PST This essay discusses author Neera's early novel "Fotografie matrimoniali" (1883) in light of its ambiguous engagement with modernity. I argue that modernity takes on different meanings and ideological connotations in the text, in particular in its discussion of gender, while participating in a nationalist rhetoric that simultaneously gives room to and ‘frames’ its female subjects. I thus investigate how the representation of gender roles is impacted by the changes brought forward by modernity, and discuss whether Neera’s formal (photographic) choice succeeds in opening a different narrative and ideological space. Silvia Valisa 19th Century Italian Literature Essay http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/12 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/12 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:27:26 PDT This is a sample of my research on the history of publishing. Silvia Valisa 19th Century Italian Literature 20th Century Italian Literature http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/11 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/11 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:19:06 PST Silvia Valisa 20th Century Italian Literature http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/10 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/10 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:13:03 PST Silvia Valisa Book Review http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/9 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/9 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:49:26 PDT Silvia Valisa Sample Syllabi http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/8 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/8 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:36:00 PDT Silvia Valisa 20th Century Italian Literature Book Review http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/7 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/7 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:31:46 PST This essay is devoted to Milanese fin-de-siècle writer Neera, more specifically to the three novels composing her “ciclo della donna giovane” (the young woman’s cycle). I examine the striking similarity of the epistemological projects of the three heroines, i.e. their attempt to combine an analytical project with a revelatory structure in order to overcome their contradictory status of narrative subjects and social objects. I consider these projects "gendered" in that they are quests disturbed by a structural and epistemological bias that forecloses a full access to experience and knowledge. The different outcomes of the quests are determined by these women’s ability (or not) to negotiate between phantasmatic social structures and the (narrative) reality. Silvia Valisa 19th Century Italian Literature http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/6 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/6 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:37:37 PST Silvia Valisa Sample Syllabi http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/5 http://works.bepress.com/silvia_valisa/5 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:25:20 PST Silvia Valisa Sample Syllabi