Weaving a Journey: 19th-Century Iceland in an Italian Female Narrative
At the end of the 19th century an Italian woman writer, Maria Savi Lopez, published the fictionalized version of a journey to Iceland, Nei Paesi del Nord (In the Northern Countries, 1893). Through the eyes of a group of English people sailing from their home country, the author weaves a choral narra...
| Published in: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Akureyri
2023
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.33112/nm.18.1.3 https://doaj.org/article/ba6c17d9c4d84cf0941077bad067355a |
| Summary: | At the end of the 19th century an Italian woman writer, Maria Savi Lopez, published the fictionalized version of a journey to Iceland, Nei Paesi del Nord (In the Northern Countries, 1893). Through the eyes of a group of English people sailing from their home country, the author weaves a choral narrative that spreads among the Italian reading public heterogeneous information about largely unknown cultures, folklores and natural environments. The narrative discourse creates a structured net, where different voices perform specific roles and encourage the readers to partake their adventures while sailing into the protective, comfortable atmosphere of the steamer. |
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