Description

• Title:
  The Power of Silence. From Ovid’s Philomela to Lisario by Antonella Cilento
• Creator:
  Antelmi, Gerardina
• Description:
  The present article examines how Antonella Cilento reinvents the myth of Philomela in Lisario o il piacere infinito delle donne, Premio Strega finalist (2014) and winner of Boccaccio Prize (2014). After evidencing the narrative aspects of Ovid’s myth – the rape; the cutting out of the tongue depriving the raped woman of her voice; the expression of the violence she experienced – the analysis focuses on how Cilento overturns the myth by interweaving Ovid’s tale with the topos of Sleeping Beauty. Despite her silencing, Lisario discovers and appropriates the pleasure that can be drawn from her body. The paper concludes by considering how the protagonist finds new and non violent ways to express herself and relate to future generations of women.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Gerardina Antelmi
• Date:
  2018.11.22
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Italian;
  ita
• Source:
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Vol. 45 No. 3 (2018): Il femminile nella letteratura italiana; 95-107;
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Tom 45 Nr 3 (2018): Il femminile nella letteratura italiana; 95-107;
  2084-4158;
  0137-2475
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/16580/16415
• Subject:
  Antonella Cilento;
  Philomela;
  contemporary Italian women’s writing;
  women’s voice
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/16580
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text