Grazia Deledda's Painterly Aesthetic
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American Studies
Art History
art studies
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Deledda and ecology
English Literature
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Gender Studies
Italian Studies
Landscape and consciousness
literary studies
Modernist painting
Secessione romana
Women's and Gender Studies
women's literature
Women's studies
Women’s and Gender Studies
women’s literature
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- ISBN 9781683934417
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Associated University Presses
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
