| Description |
1 online resource (x, 283 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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, and to understand why and which elements of her work have inspired Italian artists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lucamante, Stefania, editor
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| LC no. |
2020739708 |
| ISBN |
9781611477955 |
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1611477956 |
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