Dispositivi della visione, ambienti ed embodiment nella letteratura femminile

Abstract

This article proposes a comparative analysis of the relationships between vision and passionate devices inscribed in narrative sentences. The critical tools of visual culture (Mitchell) and semiotics (Greimas) are applied for the study of space descriptions and character’s passionate states, in two literary works by Anna Maria Ortese and Lalla Romano. In their description, the scopic device that creates the vision (image according to Mitchell) is deconstructed, and a new, alternative and re-contextualized point of view is installed to create real figures of place (pictures according to Mitchell). This new point of view can range from simple emotional involvement to the physical involvement of the body. In a specular way, the reader follows the same involvement of characters.