Anna Maria Ortese

Celestial Geographies
Herausgeber: Annovi, Gian Maria; Ghezzo, Flora

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781442649002
• ISBN-10: 1442649003
• Artikelnr.: 41626594

Autorenporträt

Edited by Gian Maria Annovi and Flora Ghezzo With an Interview with the Author by Dacia Maraini

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel (Flora Ghezzo)
PART I: From Naples to Paris (via Jerusalem): Modern Alienation and Utopian
Reality
1. “Clouds in Front of my Eyes”: Ortese’s Poetics of the Gaze in “Un paio
di occhiali” and Il mare non bagna Napoli (Lucia Re)
2. Cities “Paved with Causalties”: Ortese’s Journeys through Urban
Modernity (Andrea Baldi)
3. Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria
Ortese, Hannah Arendt and the Artist as “Conscious Pariah” (Cristina Della
Coletta)
PART II: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self
4. Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese’s Letters to Massimo
Bontempelli (Amelia Moser)
Four Letters of Anna Maria Ortese to Massimo Bontempelli and a Condolence
Letter to Paola Masino
5. Anna Maria Ortese’s Precocious Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of
Angelici dolori (Luigi Fontanella) 
6. The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e
semplici (and Back) (Beatrice Manetti)
7. On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the Autobiography of the Ephemeral
(Flora Ghezzo) 
PART III: Becoming a Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of
the Otherness
8. Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese’s
“Real Children of the Universe” (Inge Lanslots)
9. “Call Me My Name”: The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America
(Gian Maria Annovi)
10. The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese’s Il cardillo
addolorato and a Critique of European Modernity (Gala Rebane)
11. The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web
(Margherita Pieracci Harwell)
12. Alonso, the Poet and the Killer. Ortese’s Eco-logical Reading of Modern
Western History (Tatiana Crivelli)
PART IV: An Uncommon Reader
13. An “Uncommon Reader”: The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese
(Monica Farnetti)
Appendix: Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese (Dacia Maraini)
Works by Anna Maria Ortese