Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Corporeal Revolutions: Interrogating Modern and Modernist Embodiment Controlling the Dangerous Bodies of Scientific and Social Modernity Shocked Bodies: Technology, the Metropolis and the Human Sensorium Modernist Constructions of Alternative Bodily Spaces 2 Corporeal Arrhythmia: Svevo's Stylistics of Limping and Potentiality Bodies in Motion Arrhythmias of Material Embodiment Health and Predatory Action Svevian Bodies of Temporal Rupture and Waiting Embodied Music Stuttering in Style 3 Blind Refusal: Tozzi's Stylistic Phenomenology of Hypersensitivity Convulsive Bodies of Emotion Shame and Material Embodiment Disgust and the Borders of the Body Animal Epistemologies Sensory Assault and Pre-Oedipal Bodies Styling Sensory Blindness 4 Bodies, Borders and the Offended Self: Gadda's Stylistic Ethics of Misogyny Configurations of Bodily Identity The Feminine, the Fascist Horde and Weininger Subverting a Masculine Ethics of Becoming Ethics and Horror of Matricide Judging Singular Bodies A Stylistics of Singular Presence Conclusion: Italian Giraffes, Italian Bodies Bibliography Index