A Multitude of Women looks at the ways in which both Italian
literary tradition and external influences have assisted Italian
women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties
between author, text, and readership in the construction of the
novel. Stefania Lucamante discusses the valuable contributions that
Italian women writers have made to the contemporary novel and
illustrates the relevance of the novelistic examples set by their
predecessors. She addresses various discursive communities, reading
works by Di Lascia, Ferrante, Vinci, and others with reference to
intertextuality and the theories of Elsa Morante and Simone de
Beauvoir. This study identifies a positive deviation from literary
and ideological orthodoxy, a deviation that helps give meaning to
the Italian novel and to transform the traditional notion of the
canon in Italian literature. Lucamante argues that this is partly
due to the merits of women writers and their ability to eschew
obsolete patterns in narrative while favouring forms that are more
attuned to the ever-changing needs of society. She shows that
contemporary novels by women authors mirror a shift from previous
trends in which the need for female emancipation interfered with
the actual literary and aesthetic significance of the novel. A
Multitude of Women offers a new epistemology of the novel and will
appeal to those interested in women's writing, readership, Italian
studies, and literary studies in general.
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