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"The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante, each of which is narrated from the daughter's point of view and depicts the daughter's bond with the mother. Highlighting the recurrent images throughout these works, Sambuco traces these back to alternative forms of communication between mother and daughter, as well as to the female body. Sambuco also explores the attempts of the daughter-narrators to define a female self that is outside the constrictions of patriarchal society. Through these investigations, Corporeal Bonds identifies a strong connection between the ideas of post-Lacanian critical theorists, Italian feminist thinkers, and the stories within the novels."--Pub. desc

Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Italian fiction --- Italian literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism.

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German literature --- Jealousy in literature. --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Women --- History and criticism. --- Psychology.

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German literature --- Thematology --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1970-1979 --- German fiction --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism

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English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist fiction, English --- Modernism (Literature) --- Motherhood in literature. --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Women and literature --- History and criticism. --- History

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A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow.The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets the myth in terms of the historical transitions taking place in turn-of-the-century America. Donovan focuses on the changing relationship between mothers and daughters—in particular upon the ";new women's"; rebellion against the traditional women's culture of their nineteenth-century mothers (both literary and literal). An introductory chapter traces the male-supremacist ideologies that formed the intellectual climate in which these women wrote.Reorienting Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow within women's literary traditions produces major reinterpretations of their works, including such masterpieces as Ethan Frome, Summer, My Antonia, Barren Ground, and others.

Literature --- American fiction --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Demeter --- Persephone --- Wharton, Edith, --- Cather, Willa, --- Glasgow, Ellen, --- In literature. --- Characters.