“Una perfetta giapponese”: la costruzione japonisant del Giappone e della musmè ne ‘La veste di crespo’ di Matilde Serao

In Serao’s short story La veste di crespo (Madame Héliotrope) (1894) the protagonist Luisa – strongly influenced by the trend of japonisme – tries to be “una perfetta giapponese” (“a perfect Japanese”), a musmè. In particular, in the wake of Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème (1888), she asks her love...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anna Lisa Somma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto 2017-02-01
Series:Lingue Culture Mediazioni
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Online Access:http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/LCM-Journal/article/view/1041