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Genius prevails and wits begin to shine. Forgotten British women writers of the past. E-book. Formato EPUB Sonia Maria Melchiorre - Sette Città, 2016 -
Poststructuralist perspectives have brought about a major shift in our ways of thinking about culture at large. They have demonstrated that criticism can no longer be considered a neutral activity and have helped to understand the dominant representational modes at work in our society. Feminist scholars, in particular, have been protesting against the idea of a “useful” literary canon and its “systematic neglect” of women’s writing, and have demonstrated that the erasure of women writers from the Western literary tradition is not due to “an immutable process of natural selection”. Furthermore, some critics have recently demonstrated how anthologies and histories of literature have largely contributed to the erasure of women writers from the canon. It is this existent vacuum that exhorted feminist critics to repair the apparently “irrevocable disappearance” from the record of eighteenth-century women writers. The Bluestocking ladies have become known to later generations mainly as social reformers. They were in fact the originators of private assemblies in which main entertainment was not as the fashion of the time imposed card-playing, but conversation. During the last thirthy years the “reabilitation” of women writers like the Bluestockings and their many friends, and the reconsideration of their works have contributed to the “reshaping” of the canon as we now know it. At last, their lost contributions, which “helped ceate our world, can become once again part of the living record.”
Genius prevails and wits begin to shine. Forgotten British women writers of the past. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Sonia Maria Melchiorre - Sette Città, 2016 -
Poststructuralist perspectives have brought about a major shift in our ways of thinking about culture at large. They have demonstrated that criticism can no longer be considered a neutral activity and have helped to understand the dominant representational modes at work in our society. Feminist scholars, in particular, have been protesting against the idea of a “useful” literary canon and its “systematic neglect” of women’s writing, and have demonstrated that the erasure of women writers from the Western literary tradition is not due to “an immutable process of natural selection”. Furthermore, some critics have recently demonstrated how anthologies and histories of literature have largely contributed to the erasure of women writers from the canon. It is this existent vacuum that exhorted feminist critics to repair the apparently “irrevocable disappearance” from the record of eighteenth-century women writers. The Bluestocking ladies have become known to later generations mainly as social reformers. They were in fact the originators of private assemblies in which main entertainment was not as the fashion of the time imposed card-playing, but conversation. During the last thirthy years the “reabilitation” of women writers like the Bluestockings and their many friends, and the reconsideration of their works have contributed to the “reshaping” of the canon as we now know it. At last, their lost contributions, which “helped ceate our world, can become once again part of the living record.”
La scrittrice abita qui. E-book. Formato EPUB Sandra Petrignani - Neri Pozza, 2011 -
Un po' pellegrinaggio e un po' seduta spiritica, questo libro porta dalla Sardegna di Grazia Deledda all'America di Marguerite Yourcenar, dalla Francia di Colette all'Oriente di Alexandra David-Néel, dall'Africa alla Danimarca di Karen Blixen, all'Inghilterra di Virginia Woolf. Un lunghissimo viaggio in case-museo che, attraverso mobili e suppellettili, stanze e giardini raccontano la storia sentimentale delle più significative scrittrici del Novecento. Da Parigi alla Provenza, dal Kenya al Maine, da Copenhagen al Tibet, Sandra Petrignani le cerca nei loro oggetti, interroga i loro diari, la poltrona in cui si sedevano, il portafortuna da cui non si separavano, ma anche (in alcuni casi) le persone che ancora conservano un ricordo vivo di loro. Così il viaggio, concretissimo, diventa favoloso, un giro del mondo dove a ogni tappa è come se le protagoniste in persona aprissero la porta e svelassero sottovoce i segreti della vita coniugale e di passioni travolgenti, i nodi edipici e le fragilità che le hanno rese grandi scrittrici, ma anche donne tremendamente vulnerabili. E alle loro vicende s'intrecciano quelle dei loro uomini e delle loro amiche, in un caleidoscopio di presenze, da Vanessa Bell a Katherine Mansfield a Natalie Clifford Barney (l'«Amazzone») a Vita Sackville-West, che hanno contribuito a fare del Novecento un secolo leggendario. Le mele nel tinello della Yourcenar e il suo cane ancora vivo, il tempio tibetano ricreato a Digne dalla David-Néel o la stanza chiusa che fu sua nel monastero del Sikkim dove si ritirò in meditazione, la Barbagia della Deledda con le fate e i folletti che influenzarono la sua fantasia, il grammofono della Blixen portato con sé dalla sua Africa in ricordo dell'uomo che aveva amato e perduto per sempre...Sandra Petrignani ascolta «la voce delle cose» e la traduce nelle affascinanti storie di questo libro.