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    "pk": 41076,
    "title": "Il testo fantasticizzato e goticizzato come metafora della destrutturazione del discorso ‘nazione’: attorno agli scrittori scapigliati",
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    "abstract": "Beginning in the late 1870s in Italy, new narrative forms, mixing elements  borrowed from the Gothic and fantastic genres and modes with those from  historical realism, started to enjoy much greater success and to  find more followers and practitioners. More specifically, at the margins of an already existing hypothetical historical-realist narrative block,  heterodoxical narrative  expressions were coming into being. These were often populated by   physically dismembered and psychologically  multi-faced ‘in-between’ characters, who were traditionally depicted through  Northern European forms of the Gothic and fantastic, until  the  leading members of the first  Italian avant-garde movement, the  Milanese Scapigliatura,  transplanted their interpreations of the story of Italian national unification into their short stories and novels.\n \nIn the texts analyzed, the use of the typically Gothic and fantastic  motifs of the uninhabited house (or habited by ghosts) and the feminine  body, both in its phenomenology of the mother, nurse and spouse, and in  that of the faithless, fallen and sick woman,  function as metaphors to portray the shape of the national body. By  looking at the representations of the house, the female body and  marriage, this article  demonstrates how the heroines of the post-unification  novels \nFosca\n (1869) by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti and \nSenso\n (1883) by  Camillo Boito understand and construct their corporeality as the  epistemological locus where the ethical ambivalence towards the  disappointing outcomes of  national  unification could be expressed. Therefore, the  Gothic with its instances of social subversion embodied in the heroines  in the castle, and the fantastic with its ontology of ‘hesitation’  and of the fragmented and divided body could offer  the ideal narrative solution for portraying the failure of Italy’s  palingenetic re-birth during the Risorgimento.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Arts and Humanities"
        },
        {
            "word": "Italian Language and Literature"
        },
        {
            "word": "Italian Literature"
        }
    ],
    "section": "B. Futures Past 2: The (Re-)births of a 'Nazione'",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5zt6q9nm",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Francesca",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Billiani",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Manchester",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2010-08-20T16:24:44+01:00",
    "date_accepted": "2010-08-20T16:24:44+01:00",
    "date_published": "2011-12-16T08:00:00Z",
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