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In the Shadow of the Mammoth Toronto Italian Studies Series): Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism »
Authors: Giuliana Minghelli
ISBN-13: 9780802036384, ISBN-10: 0802036384
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Giuliana Minghelli
GIULIANA MINGHELLI teaches in the Romance Languages Department at Harvard University.
Book Synopsis
Giuliana Minghelli uses Italo Svevo's parodic Darwinian fable of the prehistoric encounter between the weak and 'unfinished' man and an incommensurable other to reassess his eccentric contribution to 20th century literature.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Ch. 1 | Between Darwinian Origins and Modernist Ends: Svevo's Allegory of Symbiosis | 15 |
| Ch. 2 | Of Artists, Women, and Jews: Svevo and the Modernist Contamination | 46 |
| Ch. 3 | Between Darwinism and Dreams: The Stories of Alfonso and Annetta in Una vita | 73 |
| Ch. 4 | The Crying of the Statues: Art and Women in Senilita | 102 |
| Ch. 5 | Leading the Pedagogue by the Hand | 127 |
| Ch. 6 | Out of the Shadow of the Mammoth: Zeno and the Story of the Other | 161 |
| Conclusion | 204 | |
| Notes | 207 | |
| Bibliography | 223 | |
| Index | 233 |
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