Papers by Rodica Blumenfeld
Quaderni d'Italianistica, Jul 22, 2013
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Quaderni D Italianistica, 1995
In his essay "Lingua letteraria e lingua dell'uso," Gadda writes: I doppioni li vogUo, tutti, per... more In his essay "Lingua letteraria e lingua dell'uso," Gadda writes: I doppioni li vogUo, tutti, per mania di possesso e per cupidigia di ricchezze: e vogUo anche i triploni, e i quadruploni, sebbene il Re Cattolico non li abbia ancora monetati e tutti i sinonimi, usati nelle loro variegate accezioni e sfumature, d'uso corrente, o d'uso rarissimo .... Non esistono il troppo né il vano per una lingua. (/ viaggi 95) Gadda's double is many things.^In the matrix of the Pasticciaccio the two's three moments cohere. We find in the double a model both of gender polarity and of mimesis, but the double's originary paradigm remains necessarily the self- reflexivity of consciousness itself. Every instance of the double calls forth an association to alter ego. To think is to become another self. Writing is such a process of self-reflection, and in the measure that self-knowledge is narcissism,Ĝ adda forces proliferation. Greedy for reality, he coins the triples and quadruples, attempting to write his way out of the bind of self-awareness. It is the world he wants to express, the world he wants to get into words.'T he grotesque dynamism of ornamentation in these multiples has earned for Gadda the epithet 'baroque.' Gadda himself responded to this, saying, "barocco è il mondo, e il Gadda ne ha percepito e ritratto la baroccagine" {La cognizione
Italica, 1999
... New York: Routledge, 1991. Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana UP... more ... New York: Routledge, 1991. Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989. Nichols, Bill. ... Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991. O'Healy, Aine. "Unspeakable Bodies: Fellini's Female Grotesques." Romance Languages Annual 1992. Ed. ...
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 2001
simultaneously "permanence" and "transformation." The book would be even stro... more simultaneously "permanence" and "transformation." The book would be even stronger if it included some discussion of why women writers in France toed the propagandist line so much more faithfully than they did in other European countries. Even without such a discussion, though, Goldberg's book usefully shifts our understanding of women's literary responses to the crisis that shaped the Europe in which we still live.
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