Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

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Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Corporeal Revolutions: Interrogating Modern and Modernist Embodiment
	Controlling the Dangerous Bodies of Scientific and Social Modernity
	Shocked Bodies: Technology, the Metropolis and the Human Sensorium
	Modernist Constructions of Alternative Bodily Spaces
2 Corporeal Arrhythmia: Svevo\'s Stylistics of Limping and Potentiality
	Bodies in Motion
	Arrhythmias of Material Embodiment
	Health and Predatory Action
	Svevian Bodies of Temporal Rupture and Waiting
	Embodied Music
	Stuttering in Style
3 Blind Refusal: Tozzi\'s Stylistic Phenomenology of Hypersensitivity
	Convulsive Bodies of Emotion
	Shame and Material Embodiment
	Disgust and the Borders of the Body
	Animal Epistemologies
	Sensory Assault and Pre-Oedipal Bodies
	Styling Sensory Blindness
4 Bodies, Borders and the Offended Self: Gadda\'s Stylistic Ethics of Misogyny
	Configurations of Bodily Identity
	The Feminine, the Fascist Horde and Weininger
	Subverting a Masculine Ethics of Becoming
	Ethics and Horror of Matricide
	Judging Singular Bodies
	A Stylistics of Singular Presence
Conclusion: Italian Giraffes, Italian Bodies
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