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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © Published by Oxford University Press.
- Subject
- Articles
- ISSN
- 0015-8518
- eISSN
- 1471-6860
- DOI
- 10.1093/fmls/cqn054
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This article furnishes an alternative reading of Camillo Boito's Un corpo by highlighting the ways in which aesthetics, as much as science, contributes to activate the dynamics of sexual repression and the erasure of the female in the novella. By exploring hitherto neglected literary sources, and by drawing attention to some equally overlooked cultural contexts, the article delineates how these elements contribute to the articulation of the economy of desire which underpins Boito's novella. The article concludes with a discussion of the novella read as an implicit commentary on the limits of artistic mimesis and the challenges of multimedial reproduction in Italian fin-de-sicle literary discourse.
Journal
Forum for Modern Language Studies – Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 2, 2008
Keywords: Keywords Boito, Camillo aesthetics Arethusa Pygmalion sexuality necrophilia representation mimesis fetishisation