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Group publication title:

InScriptum

Contributor:

Guidotti, Francesca. Ed.  ; Ożarska, Magdalena. Ed.  ; Bianchi, Marina. Ed.  ; Keefe, Sharon. Ed.  ; Bernstein, Beth A. Ed.  ; Newman, John G. Ed.  ; Dossena, Marina. Ed.  ; Łodej, Sylwester. Ed. Marczewska, Marzena. Ed.

Abstract:

This paper addresses the representation of snow in John Fante’s novels Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938) and 1933 Was a Bad Year (1985). While acknowledging its symbolic meanings, I contend that in Fante’s “books of youth”, the meteorological element primarily emerges as a sublime manifestation of nature that, by impeding human activity, resists conquest and mastery. Moving from a complex and gendered understanding of the American sublime, the analysis focuses on the characters’ conflicted relationship with the snowy mountainous landscape of Colorado and their imaginative retreat into an idealized, springlike California. Interpreting snow as a narrative catalyst for brutality and death, this paper examines the familial animosities represented in the novels through the lens of the passive immobility fostered by the meteorological element. By situating Fante’s novels within an American literary tradition that inscribes a twofold meaning in the nation’s natural landscape, this interpretation also seeks to move beyond their traditional categorization as ethnic literature.

Table of contents:

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Articles
7 Alessandra Goggio Die Gefahren einer „ästhetischen“ Erziehung: Zu Karl Gutzkows Roman Wally, die Zweiflerin (The Dangers of an “Aesthetic” Education: On Karl Gutzkow’s Novel Wally, die Zweiflerin)
27 Alessandra Calanchi Detecting the Domestic Soundscape in the ‘Age of Noise’: Alcott, Green, Campbell, Gilman
45 Andrea Acqualagna “Frozen Stillness”: The American Sublime and the Meteorological Element of Snow in John Fante’s “Books of Youth”
67 Alessandro Secomandi La “loca de la mina”: una lectura de Amirbar, de Álvaro Mutis (The Madwoman in the Mine: A Reading of Amirbar, by Álvaro Mutis)
93 Laura Todeschini The World Was All Before Them: From Preservation to Reconfiguration in Shelley’s The Last Man and Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
115 Angela Locatelli Labyrinths of Memory in Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi Book reviews
143 (Reviewed by Jasen Rodríguez, Texas State University) Michael Kidd, Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain: Three Key Plays in Translation. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2023, xiv + 337 pp.
149 Resenado por Ana I. Simón Alegre, Adelphi University, New York Carolina Alzate, Un cuento que no se acaba. Agripina Samper de Ancínar e Inés Ancínar Samper (1848-1892). Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2024, 435 pp.
153 Resenado por José de María Romero Barea, I.E.S. Azahar, Sevilla Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Los nombres de Feliza. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2025, 288 pp.
157 Reviewed by Camilla Holm Soelseth, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University Daniel Scott Snelson, The Little Database – A Poetics of Media Formats. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2025, 224 pp.

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 45-65

ISSN:

2720-2402 (online)

Publisher:

Jan Kochanowski University Press

Date issued:

2025

Identifier:

doi:10.25951/14186

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

InScriptum. A Journal of Language and Literary Studies

Has part:

vol.6

Type:

tekst

Access rights:

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License:

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