Grazia Deledda's Painterly Aesthetic
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Central to Grazia Deledda's narrative worlds are the relationships between her characters and the vast landscapes in which they move and act. The writer translates and represents her characters, her characters' emotions, and her natural and urban landscapes with a vocabulary that is often related to the visual arts. However, although her descriptions contain the gradations of Modernist painting, beginning with Impressionism, no book-length study, and with diverse perspectives, has thus far investigated Deledda's relationship with the visual arts and the resulting painterly aesthetic of her multicolored narratives. In this sense, Grazia Deledda's Painterly Aesthetic provides an articulated literary panorama of Deledda's novels and short stories through a discourse that is situated between literature and pictorial art. Inspired by these two cardinal points, the analyses are undertaken by contributors who have a profound awareness of an epochal change and work in different disciplines. One year from the centenary of her receipt of the Nobel Prize, the contributors investigate the connections, consonances, and differences between Grazia Deledda's oeuvre and other works inside this panorama to verify a possible unity of purpose. At the same time, they seek to ascertain whether these connections can corroborate and exalt the choices that the Sardinian writer made to free herself from the constraints of a hostile environment.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: From the “Anticlassical” Barbagia to the “Gerusalemme dell'arte”: The Representation of the Island in the Works of Grazia Deledda. Between Primitivism and the Aesthetics of the Secessions
Dino Manca
Chapter 2: Deledda, Modernism, Primitivism, and Contemporary Art
Giuliana Altea
Chapter 3: Grazia Deledda's Landscape Writings: Ignacio Zuloaga's Pictorial Suggestions in “L'uomo nuovo” and “Lasciare o prendere?”
Ombretta Frau
Section II: The Long Journey of Deledda's Narratives from Impressionism to Art Déco
Chapter 4: Impressionist Style in Deledda's Landscapes
Clara Incani Carta
Chapter 5: An Explorer's “Soul […] Enlightened by the Shining Art”: Grazia Deledda's Epistemology as a Traveller Through Observation, Discourse, and Image
Tania Manca
Section III: The Chiaroscuro of Deledda's Short Stories
Chapter 6: The Space Between: Deledda's Doors as Frames for Visual and Symbolic Landscapes
Marella Feltrin-Morris
Chapter 7: “The Feast of Christ” and the Practice of Forgiveness According to Grazia Deledda
Stefania Lucamante
Section IV: Artistic Connections across Continents: Deledda and Mansfield, Morisot, Cather, Wharton
Chapter 8: Between Affinity and Sisterhood: Nature and Art in Grazia Deledda's Visual Writing
Angela Guiso
Chapter 9: Landscapes of Desolation: Philosophical Pessimism in Grazia Deledda's Canne al vento (1913) and Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (1911)
Maria Novella Mercuri
Chapter 10: Marianna Sirca, Alexandra Bergson, and Marie Tovesky Shabata: Understanding Grazia Deledda and Willa Cather's Female Protagonists through Berthe Morisot's Impressionist Paintings
Virginia A. Picchietti
Product details
| Published | Mar 15 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 340 |
| ISBN | 9781683934424 |
| Imprint | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Illustrations | 15 b/w illustrations |
| Series | The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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