Delirious Naples : A Cultural History of the City of the Sun /

This book is addressed to "lovers of paradoxes" and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents it...

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Otros Autores: Aiello, Theresa (Contribuidor), Amore, B. (Contribuidor), Baldi, Andrea (Contribuidor), Cannavacciuolo, Angelo (Contribuidor), Caprara, Valerio (Contribuidor), Connors, Joseph (Contribuidor), D'Acierno, Pellegrino (Editor , Contribuidor), De Angelis, Rose (Contribuidor), De Luca, Erri (Contribuidor), DeAngelis, Rose, Domini, John (Contribuidor), Durante, Francesco (Contribuidor), Frasca, Simona (Contribuidor), Galassi, Jonathan (Contribuidor), Gardaphe, Fred, Gardaphé, Fred (Contribuidor), La Trecchia, Patrizia (Contribuidor), Marchesi, Ilaria (Contribuidor), Marchesi, Simone (Contribuidor), Napoli, J. Nicholas (Contribuidor), Napoli, Nick, Napolitano, Salvatore (Contribuidor), Pell, Gregory, Pine, Jason (Contribuidor), Pugliese, Stanislao G. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Rescigno, Joseph (Contribuidor), Romani, Gabriella (Contribuidor), Sant'Elia, Charles (Contribuidor), Timpanelli, Gioia (Contribuidor), Ward, Terence (Contribuidor), Ward, Terrence, Zweig, Robert (Contribuidor), de Luca, Erri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Art & Visual Culture.
Literary Studies.
Urban Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Italy.
Naples.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. Returning to The Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte
  • Preface. The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples
  • Introduction: Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse
  • Learning from Con temporary Naples/Writing as a Neapolitan
  • 1. Napòlide: A Man without Naples
  • 2. Scuorno (Vergogna)
  • The View from America
  • 3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide
  • 4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: "Rough Magic"; or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore's Naples/ New York Installation
  • 5. One Early TwentyFirst Century Summer in Naples
  • 6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a "Newpolitan" Approach to Popular Culture
  • 7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists
  • 8. You Want to Be Americano?
  • History, Memory, and Mercy
  • 9. Words in Journey: Echoes from Pompeii
  • 10. One of These Days
  • 11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of Southcentric Cosmopolitanism
  • 12. The Delirium of the Neapolitan Baroque
  • 13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment
  • 14. Caravaggio's Mercy in Naples
  • Malanapoli: From the Lazaronitum to Gomorrah/Camorra
  • 15. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet
  • 16. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story
  • Writing and Singing Naples
  • 17. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples?
  • 18. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo's Beloved Whore
  • 19. Matilde Serao's Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto
  • 20. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples
  • 21. Poetry
  • 22. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story about Stories
  • Omaggi, or Parole d'Ammore
  • 23. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard
  • 24. A Tribute to John Turturro's Passione
  • 25. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors

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