Caminer Turra: A Feminist Perspective on Fashion Journalism

ITA 262E Short Paper 2

Write 2/3 pages on one of the following topics:

· Writing Fashion and Forced Monachization in Giovanni Verga’s Sparrow

· Caminer Turra: A Feminist Perspective on Fashion Journalism

· Fashion and Satire in Parini’s “The Morning”

· Thinking through Fashion with Leopardi’s Moral Essays

· Life as Art: D’Annunzio and the Fashioning of the Self in Pleasure

After choosing a topic, briefly introduce your primary source (i.e. author, genre, date of publication, characters and plot if relevant) and address in detail the role played by fashion in the context of the linguistic and stylistic choices of your source. How does fashion contribute to Caminer Turra or Parini’s journalistic and poetical satire, Leopardi’s philosophical dialogues, Verga’s realist epistolary novel, and D’Annunzio’s Decadent prose?

Use the relevant secondary source (for example, Perrot to critique Leopardi) and any other secondary source from the course you deem relevant to deepen and enrich your analysis.

For guidance on the potential issues to address, you may wish to reread the relevant discussion prompt I distributed in class

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