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Elsa Morante's politics of writing : rethinking subjectivity, history, and the power of art /

This book revisits the philosophy and aesthetic Elsa Morante outlined in her literary writings, essays, articles, reviews, and poetry. 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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lucamante, Stefania (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: I. New Approaches to Morante's Oeuvre
  • 1. Elsa Morante's Correspondence: A New Source for the Artist's Biography / Daniele Morante
  • 2. Writing: A Lifelong Affair: Notes from the Elsa Morante Archives / Giuliana Zagra
  • 3. In the Realm of the Lie: The Implosion of Thought and the Monsters of Reason in Menzogna E sortilegio / Francesco Chillemi
  • 4. Morante and Kafka: The Gothic Walking Dead and Talking Animals / Saskia Ziolkowski
  • 5. Elsa Morante: Envisioning History / Sarah Carey
  • 6. Excursus as Narrative Technique in La Storia / Sharon Wood
  • 7. "The World Must Be the Writer's Concern": Elsa Morante's Visions of History / Stefania Lucamante
  • 8. In Marguerite Caetani's Literary Salon: A Study of Elsa Morante's Contributions to Botteghe Oscure / Lorenzo Salvagni
  • II. Theater, Visual Arts, and Cinema
  • 9. "Lo Scialle Andaluso": Performance, Performativity, and the Creativity of Elsa Morante / Gabrielle Orsi
  • 10. Elsa Morante's Pictorial References and Ekphrasis in Alibi: From Carpaccio to Silvestro Lega / Gandolfo Cascio
  • 11. Senza I conforti della religione: An Interrupted Path between Cinema and Poetic Creation / Claude Cazale Berard
  • 12. Arturo in the World of the "Pharisee Fathers": The Cinematic Adaptation of Arturo's Island / Hanna Serkowska
  • 13. No Novel Is an Island: Damiano Damiani's L'Isola di Arturo / Thomas Harrison
  • 14. Myth of Childhood: Luigi Comencini's Adaptation of La Storia / Giovanna De Luca
  • 15. Staging a Writer's Journey: Elsa Morante by Francesca Comencini / Gaetana Marrone
  • III. Queering Morante: Bodies that Matter from Diario 1938 to Aracoeli
  • 16. "Tuo scandalo tuo splendore": The Split Mother in Morante's Works from Diario 1938 to Aracoeli / Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
  • 17. Differently Queer: Sexuality and Aesthetics in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Petrolio and Elsa Morante's Aracoeli / Manuele Gragnolati
  • 18. Kaleidoscopic Sexualities: Defying Normative Resistance and Maternal Melancholia in Aracoeli / Maria Morelli
  • IV. Morante's Essays: The Self, Society, and Art
  • 19. Between Perception and Prophecy: Elsa Morante's Reflections for the Present / Flavia Cartoni
  • 20. "Pro O Contro La rabbia": Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the Work of Art in the Atomic Age / Kenise Lyons
  • 21. Timely Anachronisms: Elsa Morante, Adriana Cavarero, and Roberto Esposito on Power, Violence, and Subjectivity / Claudia Karagoz.