scholarly journals Malocchio in Nino Ricci’s Lives Of The Saints

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-60
Author(s):  
Michela Baldo
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Evil Eye ◽  
Nino Ricci ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Lives Of The Saints

The evil eye or malocchio has appeared in the works of a number of Italian-Canadian writers but for most its role has been limited. In Lives of the Saints, however, the first volume of the trilogy of the same name by Nino Ricci, its role is fundamental to the novel’s narrative construction. The central act of the novel, set in a village in southern Italy in the 1960s, is the snakebite received by the protagonist’s mother, Cristina, while she is engaged in adulterous intercourse. She becomes pregnant as a result of this encounter and is ostracised by the villagers who intepret her condition as the consequence of the evil eye, lu malocchiu. The evil eye becomes a symbol of the pain and violence of the behavioural rules and boundaries imposed on women’s flesh. Ricci, the most successful Italian-Canadian author of his generation, uses the concept of malocchio to unmask the implications of traditional patriotic and nostalgic narratives based on women’s sexuality, and eventually to construct a complex narrative of the Italian-Canadian post-migrant experience.

'Controlled by' and 'Controlling with' Sex: Comparing Portrayal of 'Nooran' and 'Haseena Begum' - Two Female Characters of Khushwant Singh's Modern Classic: Train to Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Md Shazed Ul Hoq Khan Abir
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Masculine Norms ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Sexualized Violence

Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan (1956), a quintessential post-colonial novel and a lucid modern classic - is based on the societal conditions and upheavals of during and post-liberation Pak - Indo subcontinent in 1947. Having set the plot of his novel in a fictional Punjabi village 'Mano Majra' - located near to the India - Pakistan border, Singh attempted to analyze how human relationships change in a tormented - apocalyptic society. However, this paper aims at studying how in an overtly masculine society as portrayed in the novel, amidst the fright of religious persecution, sexualized violence, the fallaciousness of mob rule, and formation of new identities via displacement - two of the novel's main female characters - Nooran, who is sexually subjugated within the text, and Haseena Begum, who uses her bodily charm to meet her days ends, stand out differently due to the disparity in their social orientations, and life choices. To explore the posed query, this paper will use Virginia Woolf's ideas from -"Professions for Women" (1942) an article apparently archaic today, but the ideas posited in it were very much contemporary to the novel's setting,  as well as Julia Kristeva's apparently contemporary ideas in - "Woman Can Never Be Defined" (1974), where these critics talked about women's sexuality, their professions, their privileged relationship with father/paternal figure of their family, and how all these lead them to abidance towards prejudiced masculine norms set by the society.

Masters and Johnson and the Primacy of Intercourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
Leslie Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Masters And Johnson

“Masters and Johnson and the Primacy of Intercourse” focuses on the therapists most responsible for launching the sex therapy discipline during the 1960s and 1970s. This chapter shows how Masters and Johnson, despite their emphasis on sexual behavior and scientific research, were not very different from their Freudian forebears in their treatment of women. They too neglected to consider that what men want most out of sex—a penis thrusting inside a vagina—is not necessarily what women want. This chapter shows that Masters and Johnson’s goal was not so much to influence women’s sexuality as it was to influence women’s resistance to men’s sexuality.

Cognitive Models and Narrative Construction

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-103
Author(s):  
Mikhail Tarasov
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Adequate Description ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Concept Model ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Different Levels

The article deals with the narrative text construction. The study thoroughly analyzes cognitive models that can become the basis of this process. Firstly, the author is studying the theory of rhetoricalcommonplaces. The article shows that this theory is suitable for constructing a rhetorical text, but not a narrative one. The second model discussed is the concept model. The article argues that this model is most convenient for text analysis, but not for its formation. Marvin Minsky's frame theory is analyzed in detail. It is stated that the theory of frames and individual narrative concepts, in particular those formulated by R. Barth, have much in common. It is concluded that the theory of frames can be perceived as the ontological basis of the narrative scientific description. In addition, the article briefly discusses the cognitive model by R. Quillian and R. Langacker. Their essence is to highlight the main and secondary content in the text. The possibility of using these models in the text analysis and its synthesis is proved by their conceptual similarity with G.Y. Solganik’s analysis of the novel by L. Tolstoy. Special attention is paid to the theory of R. Abelson. It is argued that the proposed hierarchy of cognitive structures has a generalizing character and is adequate to the text. The article gives an example based on a local narrative figure analysis undertaken by V.V. Vinogradov. The paper indicates the possibility to describe this figure within Abelson's theory. As a result of different cognitive models and narrative conceptscomparison, the article formulates the sequence of stages in the analysis and synthesis of text units found at different levels. The first stage of this sequence is the narrative figures analysis. The second one is the analysis of episodes, which are narrative figures associations. The third one is the analysis of the text plot structures. It is proposed to consider text units as realizations of cognitive structures. It is argued that the cognitive approach to the narrative provides its holistic and detailed adequate description.

Girl Wonder: Nathalia Crane, Poetic Prodigy of the 1920s

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
PAUL BRADLEY BELLEW
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Us

Largely forgotten today, from approximately the late 1910s through the 1930s, at least a dozen young girls brought out numerous books in the US. But there was one girl who was particularly talented and successful: Nathalia Crane, who published her first collection of poetry when she was just eleven years old in 1924. This article analyzes both her work and her reception from her first success through the subsequent controversy over her authorship instigated by a local Brooklyn newspaper. In the process, the article demonstrates the complicated connections between perceptions of girlhood and women's sexuality as they relate to political agency in the early twentieth-century United States.

Studies on Women's Sexuality in China since 1980: A Critical Review

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Yuxin ◽  
Sik-ying Ho Petula ◽  
Ng Man Lun
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality

Shaping Women's Sexuality

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-90
Author(s):  
Carol Anderson Darling ◽  
J. Kenneth Davidson ◽  
Colleen Conway-Welch
Keyword(s):  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality

Women’s sexuality in context

2005 ◽  
pp. 63-84
Author(s):  
David Moore ◽  
Julia Heiman
Keyword(s):  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality

Comparison of labor course and women's sexuality in planned and unplanned pregnancy

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Zahumensky ◽  
Jaroslav Zverina ◽  
Oldrich Sottner ◽  
Barbora Zmrhalova ◽  
Daniel Driak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unplanned Pregnancy ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality
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