Enlightening Encounters : Photography in Italian Literature.
Alu, Giorgia.
Enlightening Encounters : Photography in Italian Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (339 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Photo-Literary Encounters in Italy -- Part One: The Lure of Photography -- 1 Spectres of Photography: Photography, Literature, and the Social Sciences in Fin-de-Siècle Italy -- 2 Authoring Images: Italo Calvino, Gianni Celati, and Photography as Literary Art -- 3 Fossati's and Messori's Vision of Landscape in Viaggio in un paesaggio terrestre -- Part Two: Photography Structuring Narrative -- 4 The Fiction of Photography: Vittorio Imbriani's Merope IV - Sogni e fantasie di Quattr'Asterischi (1867) -- 5 Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri De Luca's Non ora, non qui -- Part Three: Narrated Photographs and Photographs Narrating -- 6 Photo-Poems: Visual Impact Strategies and Photo-Story in the Work of Mario Giacomelli and Luigi Crocenzi -- 7 What the Writer Saw (and the Camera Didn't): Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano and Daniele Del Giudice's Lo stadio di Wimbledon -- 8 Photographs Illustrating and Photographs Telling: Exercises in Reading Lalla Romano and Elio Vittorini -- Part Four: Through the Lens -- 9 Narrative Scopophilia as Seen through the Lens of a Photographic Camera: Intersemiotic Translation and Voyeurism in Alberto Moravia's L'uomo che guarda (1985) -- 10 Photography into the Limelight: Andrea De Carlo's Treno di panna -- 11 Looking through Coloured Shards: Words and Images in Ornela Vorpsi's Works -- Writing with Light: Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Enlightening Encounterstraces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium's invention in 1839 to the present day.
9781442669895
Italian literature-History and criticism.
Literature and photography-Italy-History.
Photography in literature.
Electronic books.
PQ4053.P46 / .E555 2015
Enlightening Encounters : Photography in Italian Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (339 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Photo-Literary Encounters in Italy -- Part One: The Lure of Photography -- 1 Spectres of Photography: Photography, Literature, and the Social Sciences in Fin-de-Siècle Italy -- 2 Authoring Images: Italo Calvino, Gianni Celati, and Photography as Literary Art -- 3 Fossati's and Messori's Vision of Landscape in Viaggio in un paesaggio terrestre -- Part Two: Photography Structuring Narrative -- 4 The Fiction of Photography: Vittorio Imbriani's Merope IV - Sogni e fantasie di Quattr'Asterischi (1867) -- 5 Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri De Luca's Non ora, non qui -- Part Three: Narrated Photographs and Photographs Narrating -- 6 Photo-Poems: Visual Impact Strategies and Photo-Story in the Work of Mario Giacomelli and Luigi Crocenzi -- 7 What the Writer Saw (and the Camera Didn't): Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano and Daniele Del Giudice's Lo stadio di Wimbledon -- 8 Photographs Illustrating and Photographs Telling: Exercises in Reading Lalla Romano and Elio Vittorini -- Part Four: Through the Lens -- 9 Narrative Scopophilia as Seen through the Lens of a Photographic Camera: Intersemiotic Translation and Voyeurism in Alberto Moravia's L'uomo che guarda (1985) -- 10 Photography into the Limelight: Andrea De Carlo's Treno di panna -- 11 Looking through Coloured Shards: Words and Images in Ornela Vorpsi's Works -- Writing with Light: Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Enlightening Encounterstraces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium's invention in 1839 to the present day.
9781442669895
Italian literature-History and criticism.
Literature and photography-Italy-History.
Photography in literature.
Electronic books.
PQ4053.P46 / .E555 2015