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The Heroic Female: Redefining the Role of the Heroine in the Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri
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Product DescriptionThe Heroic Female: Redefining the Role of the Heroine in the Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri, fills a void in critical inquiry on the works of eighteenthcentury tragedian Vittorio Alfieri perhaps the most important figure of the Italian Enlightenment by exploring in depth the often neglected female characters and their function within the tragic structure. In this rereading of the Alfierian tragedies, the author redefines the role of the heroine, and challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character and orient her to an abstract ideal characterized by fragility and tragic victimization. The author argues persuasively that, in Alfieris search for psychological realism, he undermines traditional assumptions of gender roles by his modern portrayal of the tragic characters. The heroines different orientation towards reality endows her with intuitive and intelligent reasoning that contradicts eighteenthcentury views of women as catalysts of anarchy and disorder. Alfieris tragic heroines are represented also as surprisingly independent and powerful. The resultant image of determined, active, and intelligent women refutes the traditional critical view. In exploring Vittorio Alfieris premodern sensibilities in the representation of his tragic heroines, this book is an important contribution to the growing body of critical works that study the representation of gender in postRenaissance and premodern Italian literature. This book will be of particular interest to: scholars of Italian lterature, especially the Enlightenment and Romantic periods; scholars of 18th century European, American and other literatures; scholars of 18th century history and sociology; and, Womens Studies and Gender Studies scholars.About the AuthorStephanie Laggini Fiore is the Associate Director of the Teaching & Learning Center as well as an Associate Professor of Italian at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has also served as the head of the Italian program at Temple and the area coordinator for the Human Behavior division of the General Education curriculum. In her research, Dr. Fiore is interested in how literature acts as both a mirror of societal change and as an instrument for societal change. Her work has focused on gender representation in Enlightenment Italian literature as well as the revolutionary vision of the Baroque Italian author Tommaso Campanella. She has most recently expanded her research to include pedagogical and faculty development interests.
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