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Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) was the author of many influential novels and remains one of the most significant Italian women writers of her time. However, critics tend to pigeonhole her works into convenient literary categories and to ignore the uniqueness of her style and voice. Grazia Deledda''s Dance of Modernity offers a timely and thought-provoking interpretation of this Nobel laureate, examining her work in the context of European philosophical and literary modernity.

Margherita Heyer-Caput takes a philosophical and philological approach in order to provide a reassessment of Deledda''s position in the literary canon. At the same time, she raises the larger issue of the status of allegedly ''regional'' or ''minor'' literatures within the context of Italian modernity. Dealing with four novels representative of Deledda''s vast corpus, Heyer-Caput addresses and dismantles elements of regionalismo, verismo, and decadentismo, labels with which

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/06/2008
      ISBN13: 9780802098313, 978-0802098313
      ISBN10: 0802098312

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      Book Synopsis

      Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) was the author of many influential novels and remains one of the most significant Italian women writers of her time. However, critics tend to pigeonhole her works into convenient literary categories and to ignore the uniqueness of her style and voice. Grazia Deledda''s Dance of Modernity offers a timely and thought-provoking interpretation of this Nobel laureate, examining her work in the context of European philosophical and literary modernity.

      Margherita Heyer-Caput takes a philosophical and philological approach in order to provide a reassessment of Deledda''s position in the literary canon. At the same time, she raises the larger issue of the status of allegedly ''regional'' or ''minor'' literatures within the context of Italian modernity. Dealing with four novels representative of Deledda''s vast corpus, Heyer-Caput addresses and dismantles elements of regionalismo, verismo, and decadentismo, labels with which

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