Farewell to Naples: Ferrante’s Story of a New Name

Autor:	Pina Palma
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Self-knowledge Linguistics and Language History Literature and Literary Theory Reading (process) media_common.quotation_subject Self-fulfillment Art history Urban space Language and Linguistics media_common
Zdroj:	Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies. 52:471-484
ISSN:	2168-989X 0014-5858
DOI:	10.1177/0014585818757206
Popis:	In Ferrante’s Story of a New Name, the protagonist’s journey to self-knowledge and self-realization is mapped through a farewell trip to Naples before she begins her studies in Pisa . As the centerpiece and background around and against which Elena’s accomplishments, failures, and societal pressures revolve, Naples emerges as a mosaic of energy and lethargy, unbreakable traditions and negligible innovations. While these elements mirror the protagonist’s powerlessness in changing the “norms” to which she is expected to adhere, they also function as her spur to a steady shift toward self-understanding. In this article, I analyze the ways in which Ferrante’s use of the beauty and lure, corrosiveness and lethality of Naples parallel her discourse on the protagonist’s search for self-understanding, a process that will ultimately enable Elena, the protagonist, to find self-realization.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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