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Roth's The Counterlife and the Negotiation of Reality and Fiction
No full textIn her article "Roth's The Counterlife and the Negotiation of Reality and Fiction" Pia Masiero analyzes some aspects of the readers' negotiations of Phillip Roth's 1986 novel. Masiero shows how Roth in the novel's first chapter "Basel" anatomizes what follows and provides the rules of pertinence which guide the text and the keys to interpret its meaning. Masiero argues that the effects of perspec- tive created by the employment of third-person narration and contra-punctual simultaneous narratives prepare readers to the metafictional choices they encounter in the final chapters of the book. With her analysis, Masiero posits that the novel turns out to be a journey in Nathan Zuckerman's writerly mind and a window on how our own minds work
On Focalization Once Again. What about the Reader?
No full textThe article analyzes the dynamics of the readers’ involvement alongside the narrator’s in the
plight of the main character of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. To tackle the narrative core of the book, namely, an empathetic immersion on the narrator’s part resulting in a figural situation, Masiero employs Vittorio Gallese’s notion of “we-centric space.
A Liminal Narcissus: Philip Roth's The Human Stain
No full textThe article explores the interconnections between the narrator’s narratological stance as a writer and the protagonist’s decision to repudiate his African American ancestry and pass for Jew. Masiero claims that the way in which Roth plots Coleman Silk’s passing goes a long way in illuminating the author’s countertextual poetics. The race issue turns out to be reflected and refracted in Zuckerman’s highly conscious handling of his material – a veritable postmodern hide-and-seek game he plays with the reader
Names across the Color Line. William Faulkner's Short Fiction 1931-1942.
No full textMasiero argues that the interplay of proper names and appellations, definite descriptions and demonstratives provides a perfect stage to illuminate the dynamic drawing of communal boundaries and group belonging in William Faulkner’s fictional South.
Focusing on short stories Faulkner wrote between 1931 and 1942, Masiero’s onomastic analyses explore and elucidate Faulkner’s Southern stance: his involvement in pivotal social and moral issues, his perception of class conflicts and racial hierarchies, his thoughts on racially inflected negotiations of identities, his recognition of the strictures imposed on the definition of the Southern self (both black and white), his immersion in and dependence on those very ideologies and vocabularies of the racial difference he stigmatizes. (Pubblicazione luglio 2012
"That is neither here nor there": Reading Alice Munro's Short Stories
No full textThe article argues that one of the ingredients of Alice Munro's art of fiction resides in her employment of deictic elements. Such elements provide positions to inhabit readers can feel very close to their own lived experience
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No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the authors Francesco Piccione, Paolo Tonin, Antonio Cerasa and Stefano Masiero, which were incorrectly given as Piccione Francesco, Tonin Paolo, Cerasa Antonio, and Masiero Stefano, respectively. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
Über das Abhängigkeitsverhältnis der ersten zwei deutschen Übersetzungen des Cortegiano (1528)
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Abitare la schifezza. Brevi interviste di uomini schifosi di David Foster Wallace
No full textIl saggio studia il gruppo di testi che conferiscono il titolo alla seconda raccolta di racconti di David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999), e si concentra sull’aspetto formale più appariscente e al tempo stesso sconcertante di questi testi, ossia la «sistematica cancellazio- ne» delle domande delle intervistatrici. Quale senso può as- sumere questo dispositivo di sottrazione e quale compito vi si può ravvisare per il lettore? Masiero lega la questione morale e di genere della hideousness maschile al concetto narratologico di prospettiva – a mancare, nella cancellazione delle domande, è la prospettiva delle intervistatrici – e perviene, di domanda in domanda, a cogliere nel testo un invito a immergerci nella hideousness e a prenderne insieme le distanze, per resistere al suo contagio e insieme al «non-volersi-sentire-riguardati da essa». L’interpretazione dei dispositivi narrativi dei testi di Wallace si definisce così in relazione al loro tema morale dominante e si prolunga in una riflessione sull’etica della lettura a cui i lettori sembrano chiamati
"'Too much and not enough.' Quando la traduzione non traduce. L'Homme Invisible/The Invisible Man di Patrice Desbiens
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