Napuljska tetralogija pod lupom feminističke naratologije
Neapolitan Novels under the Magnifying Glass of Feminist Narratology

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we are going to analyze narrative strategies in Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante. In this analysis we apply feminist narratology. Feminist narratology is a syncretic approach that seeks to link structuralism to gynocriticism in order to provide a precise investigation of both political and poetic aspects of the text. The aims of this paper are twofold. First of all, we want to explore the connection between the formal attributes of Neapolitan novels and the textual politics of gender which is directly or indirectly incorporated into them, assuming that certain emancipatory attitudes and discourses can be read from the poetics of the novel and from the manner in which the author modifies genres and literary conventions. Addtionally, since feminist narratology is not the only method of the feminist criticism we use in this paper, the second goal is to present the relationship between different approaches such as feminist narratology, gynocriticism and gynesis, as well as their inherent constraints.

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