Sfoglia Testi e linguaggi per Soggetto "Gender"
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Alle radici di un personaggio de/genere: Clytemnestre ou le crime di Marguerite Yourcenar e il teatro eschileo
(Roma : Carocci, 2022)The paper investigates the relationship between Yourcenar’s monologue “Clytemnestre ou le crime” and Aeschylus’ tragedy “Agamemnon” in the literary representation of the sexual identity of the mythical queen Clytemnestra. ... -
Speaking (out) of Silence: The burden of womanhood in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata” and William Morris’s “The Defence of Guenevere”
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)An era punctuated by contradictions and uncertainty, the Middle Ages represented a powerful looking glass for the flawed and highly duplicitous Victorian society. Deeply unhappy with the cultural and aesthetic chaos ... -
“we have no choice left but confess – he was a woman”. Queering and theory-building potential in Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando
(Roma : Carocci, 2022)Virginia Woolf ’s novel Orlando (1928) impressively anticipates that becoming and being a woman (or a man) are cultural processes of inscription and internalization of gendered roles. Orlando miraculously changes their sex ...