What is Elena Ferrante? A comparative analysis of a secretive bestselling Italian writer.
This article looks at the case of Elena Ferrante, the (presumed) pseudonym of an internationally successful Italian novelist, and has two objectives: first, to observe how her novels are positioned in the panorama of modern Italian literature (represented by an ad hoc reference corpus—composed of 15...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 685 - 703 |
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