"La signorina" e altri racconti: An MLA Text Edition (MLA Texts and Translations) - Softcover

Banti, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873527917 ISBN 13: 9780873527910

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America, 2001

Synopsis

Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death in 1985. The five tales in "La signorina" e altri racconti display her talent across many genresfiction, science fiction, historical fiction, mystery.

Banti's stories portray the ageless conflict between the expectations of society and the aspirations of the individual. In "Vocazioni indistinte," the young Ofelia becomes a pianist after her marriage prospects fail, but self-doubt turns her success into miserable mediocrity. In the futuristic "Le donne muoiono," men acquire a new evolutionary ability; women, lacking that ability, are consigned to the status of an inferior race. "Joveta di Betania," set in the time of the Crusades, follows the daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem as she escapes to a life of seclusion as an abbess--a life that becomes for her a source of proud freedom and deep bitterness. In "I velieri," a young boy creates an imaginary world from an uncertain childhood memory. "La signorina" tells of a young woman who eventually finds herself, as a writer.

About this title

About the Author

Anna Bantiwas the pseudonym of Lucia Lopresti-Longhi (18951985), the author of eight novels (including the widely acclaimedArtemisia), a play, and seven collections of short stories. She wrote critical works on artists from Fra Angelico to Monet and translated works by, among others, Alain-Fournier, Thackeray, and Woolf.

Carol Lazzaro-Weis is professor of French and Italian at the University of Missouri. Her research interests include the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French novel, feminist literary theory, and twentieth-century Italian literature.

Language Notes

Text: Italian, English

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0873527917
• ISBN 13: 9780873527910
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Lazzaro-Weis Carol