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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  |  Date: 1/1/2006  |  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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