Memoria e violenza in "Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio" di Vincenzo Consolo.
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Title
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Memoria e violenza in "Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio" di Vincenzo Consolo.
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Identifier
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AAI3074673
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identifier
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3074673
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Creator
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Pascale, Vincenzo.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Eugenia Paulicelli
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Date
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2003
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Language
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Italian
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Literature, Romance | Literature, Modern
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Abstract
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My dissertation will focus on Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio an historical novel written by Vincenzo Consolo and published in 1977. This novel has been considered many critics as one of the most important Italian novels of the second half of the twentieth century. Consolo's novel is not written as an historical novel based upon historical facts in Sicily, 1861 during the process of Italian unification. Rather, he reworks the major themes introduced by literary the former Italian historical narratives. This makes Vincenzo Consolo one of the most innovative and complex modern Italian writers. My work is divided in four major chapters along with an introduction.;The introduction will place Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio in a literary historical framework. Indeed other Italian writers who wrote on the same themes: are Giovanni Verga, Liberta, Federico De Roberto, I vicere, Luigi Pirandello, I vecchi e i giovani and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il gattopardo. Vincenzo Consolo in Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio creates a narrative which goes further than any other single literary achievement by creating an historical novel where history is told by those who were defeated by history itself.;The dissertation is divided in four major chapters. The first chapter In cammino verso la scrittura provides an introduction to the narrative style of Vincenzo Consolo, considering the literary model and social events which shaped his narration. The chapter analyzes La ferita dell'Aprile , Consolo's first novel in depth.;The second chapter, Il ritratto, will focus on the portrait by the Renaissance painter, Antonello da Messina, from which the novel is entitled. I will argue that the portrait becomes the portrait of Consolo himself who narrates the historical events from his own point of view becoming part of the historical process.;The second chapter Il taglio: un gesto liberatorio will analyze the importance of a slash given to the portrait by Catena Carnevale, a young revolutionary. The symbolic gesture will be discussed as an important moment in the rupture of the symbiotic relationship between the intellectual and the political arena, which leads intellectuals to retreat from political life.;The third chapter, Il rapporto Consolo-Goya: da iconografia a iconologia, will focus on Francisco Goya, the painter whose etchings' titles were woven into the narration. Indeed, there is a very close relationship between the historical events narrated by Consolo and those which actually happened in Spain in 1812--13 and depicted by Goya in this art.;The last chapter Malinconia and Utopia will focus on the major character Enrico Pirajno di Mandralisca, a scientist and a noble, who after witnessing the historical events suspends his research and retreats from public life. Consolo and Mandralisca, at the end of narration, evolve into the same voice. Therefore, this retreat denotes a form of utopian thought linked to a mythical past.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
