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This contribution discusses the representation of rape and violence against women in late 19th century Italian literature. In doing so, I focus on a short story, La Vergine Orsola, initially written by Gabriele D’Annunzio in 1884 as part of a short story collection titled Il Libro delle Vergini, lat...

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Published: Firenze University Press 2022
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-583322022-09-16T03:15:04Z Chapter Violence and rape in the Italian fin-de-siècle: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s “La Vergine Orsola” Barisonzi, Michela D’Annunzio Female Representation Rape Violence bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies This contribution discusses the representation of rape and violence against women in late 19th century Italian literature. In doing so, I focus on a short story, La Vergine Orsola, initially written by Gabriele D’Annunzio in 1884 as part of a short story collection titled Il Libro delle Vergini, later re-published in 1902 in Le Novelle della Pescara. This contribution looks at how the idea of rape is used in this short story as a narrative escamotage to bring to the attention of the reader the question of female entitlement to sexual desire as part of a social critique that D’Annunzio brings forward in his fin-de-siècle novels and short stories. 2022-09-15T20:08:25Z 2022-09-15T20:08:25Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20220915_9788855185974_128 2420-8361 9788855185974 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58332 eng Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 978-88-5518-597-4_9.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-597-4_9 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4.09 10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4.09 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855185974 66 24 Florence open access
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