Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing

Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art
Herausgeber: Lucamante, Stefania

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Produktbeschreibung

This book revisits the philosophy and aesthetic Elsa Morante outlined in her literary writings. Stefania Lucamante presents a fresh outlook at Morante's work to determine the importance of her work today, to appreciate her theoretical and stylistic legacy, and to understand why and which elements of her work have inspired Italian artists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781611477962
• ISBN-10: 1611477964
• Artikelnr.: 46601193

Autorenporträt

Edited by Stefania Lucamante - Contributions by Claude Cazalé Bérard; Sarah Carey; Flavia Cartoni; Gandolfo Cascio; Francesco Chillemi; Giovanna De Luca; Manuele Gragnolati; Thomas Harrison; Claudia Karagoz; Kenise Lyons; Gaetana Marrone; Daniele Morante;

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Stefania Lucamante Chapter 1: Daniele Morante: "Elsa
Morante's Correspondence: A New Source for the Artist's Biography" Chapter
2: Giuliana Zagra: "Writing: A Lifelong Affair. Notes from the Elsa Morante
Archives" Part One: New Approaches to Morante's Oeuvre Chapter 3: Francesco
Chillemi: "In the Realm of the Lie: The Implosion of Thought and the
Monsters of Reason in Menzogna e Sortilegio" Chapter 4: Saskia Ziolkowski:
"Morante and Kafka: The Gothic Walking Dead and Talking Animals" Chapter 5:
Sarah Carey: "Elsa Morante: Envisioning History" Chapter 6: Sharon Wood:
"Excursus as Narrative Technique in La Storia" Chapter 7: Stefania
Lucamante: "'The World Must Be the Writer's Concern': Elsa Morante's
Visions of History" Chapter 8: Lorenzo Salvagni: "In Marguerite Caetani's
Literary Salon: a Study of Elsa Morante's Contributions to Botteghe Oscure"
Part Two: Theater, Visual Arts and Cinema Chapter 9: Gabrielle Orsi: "Lo
Scialle Andaluso: The Intimate Theater of Elsa Morante" Chapter 10:
Gandolfo Cascio: "Elsa Morante's Pictorial References and Ekphrasis in
Alibi: from Vittore Carpaccio to Silvestro Lega" Chapter 11: Claude Cazalé
Bérard: "Senza i conforti della religione: An Interrupted Path between
Cinema and Poetic Creation" Chapter 12: Hanna Serkowska: "Arturo in the
World of the 'Pharisee Fathers': The Cinematic Adaptation of Arturo's
Island" Chapter 13: Thomas Harrison: "No Novel is an Island: Damiano
Damiani's L'isola di Arturo" Chapter 14: Giovanna De Luca: "The Myth of
Childhood: Luigi Comencini's Adaptation of La Storia" Chapter 15: Gaetana
Marrone: "Staging a Writer's Journey: Elsa Morante by Francesca Comencini"
Part Three: Queering Morante: Bodies that Matter from Diario 1938 to
Aracoeli Chapter 16: Katrin Wehling-Giorgi: "Tuo scandalo tuo splendore":
The Split Mother in Morante's Works from Diario 1938 to Aracoeli Chapter
17: Manuele Gragnolati: "Differently Queer: Sexuality and Aesthetics in
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Petrolio and Elsa Morante's Aracoeli" Chapter 18:
Maria Morelli: "Kaleidoscopic Sexualities: Defying Normative Resistance and
Maternal Melancholia in Aracoeli" Part Four: Morante's Essays: the Self,
Society and Art Chapter 19: Flavia Cartoni: "Between Perception and
Prophecy: Elsa Morante's Reflections for the Present" Chapter 20: Kenise
Lyons: "'Pro o Contro La rabbia': Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini and the
Work of Art in the Atomic Age" Chapter 21: Claudia Karagoz: "Timely
Anachronisms: Elsa Morante, Adriana Cavarero and Roberto Esposito on Power,
Violence, and Subjectivity" Analytical Index Bios contributors