Grazia Deledda's Painterly Aesthetic (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Guiso, Angela; Picchietti, Virginia A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Central to Grazia Deledda's narrative worlds are the relationships between her characters and the vast landscapes in which they move and act. The writer translates and represents her characters, her characters' emotions, and her natural and urban landscapes with a vocabulary that is often related to the visual arts. However, although her descriptions contain the gradations of Modernist painting, beginning with Impressionism, no book-length study, and with diverse perspectives, has thus far investigated Deledda's relationship with the visual arts and the resulting painterly aesthetic of her multicolored narratives. In this sense, Grazia Deledda's Painterly Aesthetic provides an articulated literary panorama of Deledda's novels and short stories through a discourse that is situated between literature and pictorial art. Inspired by these two cardinal points, the analyses are undertaken by contributors who have a profound awareness of an epochal change and work in different disciplines. One year from the centenary of her receipt of the Nobel Prize, the contributors investigate the connections, consonances, and differences between Grazia Deledda's oeuvre and other works inside this panorama to verify a possible unity of purpose. At the same time, they seek to ascertain whether these connections can corroborate and exalt the choices that the Sardinian writer made to free herself from the constraints of a hostile environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683937029
• Artikelnr.: 75076697

Autorenporträt

Angela Guiso is an established literary critic, author of numerous studies on modern and contemporary Italian literature, and authoritative voice in Deledda studies. Virginia A. Picchietti is professor of Italian and women's and gender studies at the University of Scranton.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: From the Language of the Painters of the Secessione Romana to
Ignacio Zuloaga's Chromatism
Chapter 1: From the "Anticlassical" Barbagia to the "Gerusalemme
dell'arte": The Representation of the Island in the Works of Grazia
Deledda. Between Primitivism and the Aesthetics of the Secessions
Dino Manca
Chapter 2: Deledda, Modernism, Primitivism, and Contemporary Art
Giuliana Altea
Chapter 3: Grazia Deledda's Landscape Writings: Ignacio Zuloaga's Pictorial
Suggestions in "L'uomo nuovo" and "Lasciare o prendere?"
Ombretta Frau
Section II: The Long Journey of Deledda's Narratives from Impressionism to
Art Déco
Chapter 4: Impressionist Style in Deledda's Landscapes
Clara Incani Carta
Chapter 5: An Explorer's "Soul [.] Enlightened by the Shining Art": Grazia
Deledda's Epistemology as a Traveller Through Observation, Discourse, and
Image
Tania Manca
Section III: The Chiaroscuro of Deledda's Short Stories
Chapter 6: The Space Between: Deledda's Doors as Frames for Visual and
Symbolic Landscapes
Marella Feltrin-Morris
Chapter 7: "The Feast of Christ" and the Practice of Forgiveness According
to Grazia Deledda
Stefania Lucamante
Section IV: Artistic Connections across Continents: Deledda and Mansfield,
Morisot, Cather, Wharton
Chapter 8: Between Affinity and Sisterhood: Nature and Art in Grazia
Deledda's Visual Writing
Angela Guiso
Chapter 9: Landscapes of Desolation: Philosophical Pessimism in Grazia
Deledda's Canne al vento (1913) and Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (1911)
Maria Novella Mercuri
Chapter 10: Marianna Sirca, Alexandra Bergson, and Marie Tovesky Shabata:
Understanding Grazia Deledda and Willa Cather's Female Protagonists through
Berthe Morisot's Impressionist Paintings
Virginia A. Picchietti