La prose des femmes écrivains : la langue dans les premiers romans de 1940 à 1968 // The prose of women writers: the language in debut novels from 1940 to 1968

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The candidate's project aims at studying 30 debut novels by Italian women writers in the period 1940-1968.
The analysis will focus on phonetics, morphology and syntax, taking contents and themesinto consideration as well. The project has been conceived because the lack of studies of the entire novels landscape affects the investigation on the language of the XX Century Italiannovel.
The works of women writers show a peculiar dialectic with the dominant literary and its linguistic model, to which they relate and adhere in a partial, lateral and critical manner. This approach often turns towards fantastic and psychological investigation showing a different reading of reality if compared with the dominant neorealism, favored by the Italian novel since the post-war period. Women novels are therefore different both in language and in contents from the dominant literary model and are often in contrast with it. The analysis of women writers' novels allows to make a more equal comparison with the literary canon, which they were excluded from.
As for language, we see two opposite tendencies in these decades: the first is a medium style of writing especially from the 60's onwards, which allows attention to focus on the context of the narrative rather than on its modes of expression. Such sobriety also comes from a desire to react to the traditional cliché of emotional and intimate women's writing marking in this way a difference with novels of male writers. The second tendency is to keep a conservative style.
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Début de la thèse : 01/10/2025
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Programmes de l'Union Européenne de financement de la recherche (ERC, ERASMUS)

Université de Savoie Mont-Blanc

633 Cultures Sociétés Territoires

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