Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction

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Index Works by Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Elsa Morante, and Umberto Eco are listed by title. Acerbi, Giuseppe, 226n18 Adorno, Theodor, 160, 161, 177, 178 Agrati, S., 215n3 Alicata, Mario, 80, 81, 82, 232n15 Anceschi, Luciano, 86 Angeli, Gaetano, 225n12 Annales d'histoire economique et sociale. See Ecole des Annales Apocalittici e integrati, 161-62 Apocalypse. See also Bible; repetition: and apocalyptic thought biblical, 188, 193 as narrative model, 17, 166-67, 168-72,177,178-79,180, 194, 197-98, 242n6 and sociopolitical change, 187-88 as thematic presence, 167-68, 179,182, 192-93, 242n7 Aragon, Louis, 77, 83, 231n6, 232n12 Ariosto, Ludovico, 233n20 Aristotle, 36, 51, 93-94, 118, 163, 165, 190, 193 Aron, Raymond, 49, 94 Augustine, 168, 169 Austen, Jane, 119, 124 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 91-92, 153, 189 Balbo, Cesare, 219n18 Balestrini, Nanni, 231n8 Barante, Prosper de, 236nl Barilli, Renato, 86, 125-26, 127, 231n8 Barth, John, 3 Barthes, Roland, 153, 162, 169, 170, 220-21n23 Bassani, Giorgio, 80-81, 230n3, 231n4 Baudrillard, Jean, 176 Bazzoni, Giambattista, 39-40, 215n3,219n19 Beaumont, J. E, 223n3 Beckett, Samuel, 231n7 Benveniste, Emile 126, 127 Bertolotti, Davide, 215n3 Bianchetti, Giuseppe, 40-42, 227n21,227nn22-24 Bible, 166, 167, 168, 180, 183. See also Apocalypse: biblical Bilenchi, Romano, 88 Biorci, Domenico, 224n7 Blanchot, Maurice, 137, 150-51 Blasetti, Alessandro, 233n20 Blasucci, Luigi, 87 Bloch, Marc, 43 Bloom, Harold, 10 Bocelli, Arnaldo, 87-88 Bodei, Remo, 114 Borsieri, Pietro, 21-23, 51, 226nI9,226-27n21 Braudel, Fernand, 62, 79, 121 Brecht, Bertolt, 86, 231n9 Butor, Michel, 73, 231n7 Calvino, Italo, 3, 158, 23233n18 Campiglio, Giovanni, 215n3 Cantoni, Remo, 84-85 Cantu, Cesare, 216n3 Carnival discourse of, 17, 183-87, 190-92, 194, 197-98 ideology of, 187-90 Cassola, Carlo, 230n2 261 Index Cattaneo, Carlo, 223n3 causality, laws of in historical and fictional narratives, 16, 17, 49, 72, 84, 89,93,97,98-100,118-19, 165, 196, 197 and rational thought, 174-75, 178-79 Certeau, Michel de. See de Certeau, Michel Chaunu, Pierre, 49 Chomsky, Noam, 126-27 Cixous, Helene, 145, 151, 240n27 Classicists and Romantics, debates between. See fiction: literary debates on; historical fiction: Classicists and Romantics on Cohn, Bernard S., 146 Coleridge, S. T., 55 Collingwood, R. G., 59-60, 61, 65, 148 Cooper, James Fenimore, 30 Coover, Robert, 221n24 Corti, Maria, 87,157, 216n4, 217n9, 241nl Cowart, David, 236n36 critical historical novels. See also Gattopardo, Il; Nome della rosa, Il; Storia, La definition of, 2 and genre revision, 2, 3-4, 6, 14-15,18,195-98,22122n24 and ideology, 15, 17-18, 195, 198 Croce,Benedetto,74,124,21819n14 Crovi, Raffaele, 81-82 Cuoco, Vincenzo,219nl6 Danto, Arthur C., 60, 170 Davin, Anna, 148 D'Azeglio, Massimo, 215-16n3, 219n18,228n32 262 De Castris, Leone, 219n16 de Certeau, Michel, 65-66, 67, 94, 120 Del Boca, Angelo, 232-33n18 Deleuze, Gilles, 100 Del romanzo storico, 50-69, 228n29, 229n39. See also historical fiction; organic form and literary debates on fiction, 20,21,50-51,222n2 Manzoni's indictment of historical fiction in, 1, 11, 14-15, 57-58, 119-20, 195, 198 and theory of creative historiography , 16, 19,54-55, 58-62,67-68,195 De Rosa, Giuseppe, 231n5 Derrida, Jacques, 13 De Sanctis, Francesco, 19,51 de Saussure, Ferdinand. See Saussure , Ferdinand de Di Cori, Paola, 237n9, 238n17 Dray, William H., 60 Dumas, Alexandre, 5, 162 Eagleton, Terry, 77, 232n16 Eco, Umberto, 153-94. See also representation, theories of: according to Eco Ecole des Annales, 62,79, 232n14,237n5 Eliot, George, 124 Eliot, T. S., 9, 10, 68 emplotment, 60. See also Gattopardo, Il: modes of emplotment in; history: emplotment of; Nome della rosa, Il: modes of emplotment in; plot Engels, Friedrich, 233n19 Ercoliani, Lorenzo, 216n3 estrangement, strategies of, 6, 64,97-98,155 Febvre, Lucien, 43 Fermo e Lucia, 225n12 Feuillet, Octave, 162 fiction. See also historical fiction and ethics, 21-23, 24, 27, 34, 46, 123-24, 222n24, 22324n6 , 224-25n11, 225n12 idealistic and realistic approachesto , 21-23, 26-27, 33-36 literary debates on, 20-51, 222n1,228n28 Forster, E. M., 98, 231n6 Fortini, Franco, 76-77 Foscolo, Ugo, 219n16 Foucault, Michel, 8, 44, 178, 221n23 Fowler, Alastair, 217n9, 219n15 Freud, Sigmund, 126, 133, 134 Fubini, Mario, 216n4, 218-19n14 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 71, 80, 102, 108, 233n20 Garosci, Aldo, 90 Gattopardo, Il. See also critical historical novels analogy and repetition in, 16, 72,89,98...