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Anna Maria Ortese : Celestial Geographies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (498 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442619227
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anna Maria OrteseDDC classification:
  • 853/.914
LOC classification:
  • PQ4875.R8
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel -- PART ONE: 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 -- 2 Cities "Paved with Casualties": Ortese's Journeys through Urban Modernity -- Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese, Hannah Arendt, and the Artist as "Conscious Pariah" -- PART TWO: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self -- 4 Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese's Letters to Massimo Bontempelli -- Four Letters of Anna Maria Ortese to Massimo Bontempelli and a Condolence Letter to Paola Masino -- 5 Anna Maria Ortese's Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of Angelici dolori -- 6 The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e semplici (and Back) -- 7 On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the (Auto)fiction of the Ephemeral -- PART THREE: On Becoming Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of Otherness -- 8 Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese's "Real Children of the Universe" -- 9 "Call Me My Name": The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America -- 10 The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese's Il cardillo addolorato and the Critique of European Modernity -- 11 The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web -- 12 Alonso, the Poet and the Killer: Ortese's Eco-logical Reading of Modern Western History -- PART FOUR: An Uncommon Reader -- An "Uncommon Reader": The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese -- Appendix: Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese -- Primary Works by Anna Maria Ortese -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographiesfeatures a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel -- PART ONE: 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 -- 2 Cities "Paved with Casualties": Ortese's Journeys through Urban Modernity -- Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese, Hannah Arendt, and the Artist as "Conscious Pariah" -- PART TWO: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self -- 4 Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese's Letters to Massimo Bontempelli -- Four Letters of Anna Maria Ortese to Massimo Bontempelli and a Condolence Letter to Paola Masino -- 5 Anna Maria Ortese's Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of Angelici dolori -- 6 The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e semplici (and Back) -- 7 On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the (Auto)fiction of the Ephemeral -- PART THREE: On Becoming Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of Otherness -- 8 Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese's "Real Children of the Universe" -- 9 "Call Me My Name": The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America -- 10 The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese's Il cardillo addolorato and the Critique of European Modernity -- 11 The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web -- 12 Alonso, the Poet and the Killer: Ortese's Eco-logical Reading of Modern Western History -- PART FOUR: An Uncommon Reader -- An "Uncommon Reader": The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese -- Appendix: Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese -- Primary Works by Anna Maria Ortese -- Contributors -- Index.

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

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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