Lost in the art(ifice) of male language: finding the female author in Paola Capriolo's Il doppio regno.(Critical essay)
From: The Modern Language Review
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Date: 1/1/2006
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Author: Hipkins, Danielle
ABSTRACT
With its self-conscious intertextuality and thirty-year-old female narrator, Capriolo's Il doppio regno invites interpretation as a form of '.ctitious autobiography'. This reading emphasizes the novel's importance as an exploration of female authorial anxiety in relation to a predominantly male-authored canon. Focusing upon Capriolo's admiration for Gottfried Benn and his privileging of art as absolute, the article shows how women's alienation from language is ...
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