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Women and Literature: Methodological Notes, 1977, n. 5, pp. 22-28
Wishing to undertake a research on the relationship: woman/literature, according to the author, it is important to consider different fields of analysis. Initially, one has to make definite the comparisons between the analysis of creativity and the process of writing with the material situations of women writers and with the whole literary system.
Indeed, it is not casual that, if it is true that literature compared to science, philosophy, politics. etc., has represented a field open to women, that field has been limited to certain literary types specially connected with the expression of affection and irrationality - autobiography, lyrics, novel - whereas the "noble types" - tragedy, epics etc. - have been denied to women. Because women have been subdued and also been denied the freedom of speech.
This fact has so be taken into consideration by the critic: theoretical, political and social deficiencies, especially in terms of lack of a global vision of the world able so give a proper structure to the text, has influenced the literary product of women writers. To sum it up, what are the functions of literary critique made by women?
To analyse the way of access to literary production (and the obstacles to it), to explore the meaning of the results and the new horizons opened by the writers; to give an interpretation of more or less well known literary texts, basing critique on the destiny of the feminine figures; to take in account the functions of women-readers considering at the same time the specific demand of the literary system.
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Houses in Literature, 1982, n. 19-20, pp. 65-84
Through different associations, observations and assumptions, the authors (Vanna Gentili, Graziella Pagliano Ungari, Viola Papetti, Jacqueline Risset) suggest topics for research on the different literary portraits and representations of the house. From different views a common trend seems to emerge: it is the hypothesis of the house as a fundamental element in the time-space organization of literary production. Houses for literature then, and literature which never leaves them out. A necessary presence, even if in absentia.
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Reviews for DWF
La représentation du corp dans la culture italienne, Actes du Colloque
de 1980, Centre d'études Italiennes d'Aix-en-Provence, 1982
rev. by Graziella Pagliano, 1982, n. 22, pp. 158-160