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Project

(Collections of) Short stories in Italian 20th century literature. Study of theoretic problems and analysis of a case study: Carlo Emilio Gadda (1891-1971).
Code
01N03411
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 October 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
short stories Il castello di Udine philology 20th century literature La Madonna dei filosofi text analysis literary theory Italian literature genre theory Carlo Emilio Gadda L'Adalgisa Accopiamenti Giudiziosi
 
Project description

The project proposes a study of the short narrative form and a case study of four collections of short stories by Gadda. Starting from the theoretic literary problems (especially in the field of narrative genre theory), the project aims to study a case that represents the theoretic problematics.