Teresa, Giacinta and Elena – Emma’s Italian sisters, that is Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in the XIXth century Italian literature Cover Image

Teresa, Giacinta i Helena – włoskie siostry Emmy, czyli Pani Bovary Gustave’a Flauberta w literaturze włoskiej XIX wieku
Teresa, Giacinta and Elena – Emma’s Italian sisters, that is Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in the XIXth century Italian literature

Author(s): Zuzanna Krasnopolska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: bovarysme; hysteria; identity; illusion; imagination

Summary/Abstract: Through a comparative study, the author tries to outline the differences and similarities between Madame Bovary and three 19th century Italian novels by De Roberto, Verga and Capuana along with an intertextual game the writers engage in with the French original. By a close analysis of the protagonists’ childhood, marriage/adultery, literary education and psychological disorders, the author argues that whilst Emma Bovary falls victim of her illusions, and Elena with Giacinta are only partially Mesdames Bovary, Teresa comes to realise the male power of novels.

  • Issue Year: 49/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 151-167
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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