Studies in modern Italian fiction

This volume is a collection of articles on major Italian authors of the twentieth century. The main focus of professor DiPaolo's research, as shown here, is a critique of traditional roles and conventional representation of women, explored within the patriarchal symbolic (see in particular the articles on Pirandello, Lampedusa, and Fenoglio). As assembled here, this volume offers also an engaging and enlightening analysis of images in the context of the author's related literary universe. Significant examples are the articles on D'Annunzio, Betti, Silone, and Visconti.