“ Fra Hilda Doolittle e Marilyn Monroe: il nome nella letteratura e cultura americana del novecento”

The essay argues that in the North-American literature of the twentieth century, proper names often become both the locus where individual identity and social expectations conflict, and the means through which the author tries to dislocate old myths and introduce new ones into the culture. Building on this, the essay examines Hilda Doolittle’s modernist novels and poems to highlight the many ways in which she explores multiple authorial identities, and the mythmaking potential of proper names, acronyms and heteronyms.