The Girls’ Side. Analysis of Bianca Pitzorno’s Contribution to Children’s Literature
This essay provides an overview of the contribution of the Italian writer Bianca Pitzorno to children’s literature. This author is important on both a national and international level. She dedicated her life to writing stories with female children and teenagers as lead characters when the litera...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Studia Polensia |
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| Online Access: | http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/292436 |
| Summary: | This essay provides an overview of the contribution of the Italian
writer Bianca Pitzorno to children’s literature. This author is important on
both a national and international level. She dedicated her life to writing
stories with female children and teenagers as lead characters when the
literature of the mostly provided them with supporting roles with weak
or submissive personalities. Other literary authors wrote about girls (e.g.
Carroll, Michaelis, Lindgren, Dahl and Petrosino), but none of them ever
embraced this task like Pitzorno. Also if we compare some of lead male
characters in classic children’s literature (ones by Calvino, Collodi, De
Amicis, Kipling and Malot) with Pitzorno’s female ones, we can see that the
latter are on par with their male counterparts. |
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| ISSN: | 1848-4905 2459-6256 |