Amberson Deborah - Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

GIRAFFES IN THE GARDEN OF ITALIAN LITERATURE
MODERNIST EMBODIMENT IN ITALO SVEVO, FEDERIGO TOZZI AND CARLO EMILIO GADDA

LEGENDA, founded in 1995 by the European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford, is now a joint imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge. Titles range from medieval texts to contemporary cinema and form a widely comparative view of the modern humanities, including works on Arabic, Catalan, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish literature. An Editorial Board of distinguished academic specialists works in collaboration with leading scholarly bodies such as the Society for French Studies and the British Comparative Literature Association.

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Editorial Committee
Professor Simon Gilson, University of Warwick (General Editor)

Dr Francesca Billiani, University of Manchester

Dr Manuele Gragnolati, Somerville College, Oxford

Dr Catherine Keen, University College London

Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, Oxford

Founding Editors
Professor Zygmunt Baraski and Professor Anna Laura Lepschy

In the light of growing academic interest in Italy and the reorganization of many university courses in Italian along interdisciplinary lines, this book series, founded now continuing under the Legenda imprint, aims to bring together different scholarly perspectives on Italy and its culture. Italian Perspectives publishes books and collections of essays on any period of Italian literature, language, history, culture, politics, art, and media, as well as studies which take an interdisciplinary approach and are methodologically innovative.

1. The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837 , ed. by Prue Shaw
2. Nelle Carceri di G. B. Piranesi , by Silvia Gavuzzo-Stewart
3. Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Womens Narrative , by Rita Wilson
4. Elio Vittorini: The Writer and the Written , by Guido Bonsaver
5. Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste , by Elizabeth Schchter
6. Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood , by Claudia Nocentini
7. Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni , by Maggie Gnsberg
8. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieris Poetry and Late Medieval Society , by Fabian Alfie
9. Fragments of Impegno , by Jennifer Burns
10. Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel , by Ruth Glynn
11. Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen , by Felia Allum
12. Speaking Out and Silencing , ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio
13. From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante , by Claire E. Honess
14. Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture , ed. by Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta
15. Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre , by Lisa Sampson
16. Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy , by Vivienne Suvini-Hand
17. Il teatro di Eduardo De Filippo , by Donatella Fischer
18. Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 19692009 , ed. by Pierpaolo Antonello and Alan OLeary
19. Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520 , by Rhiannon Daniels
20. Ugo Foscolo and English Culture , by Sandra Parmegiani
21. The Printed Media in Fin-de-sicle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers , ed. by Ann Hallamore Caesar, Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns

Managing Editor
Dr Graham Nelson, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, UK
www.legenda.mhra.org.uk

Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

DEBORAH AMBERSON

Italian Perspectives 22
Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge
2012

First published 2012

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