TY  - BOOK
AU  - Annovi,Gian Maria
AU  - Ghezzo,Flora
TI  - Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies
T2  - Toronto Italian Studies
SN  - 9781442619227
AV  - PQ4875.R8 
U1  - 853/.914 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Ortese, Anna Maria-Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographiesfeatures a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4669612
ER  -