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Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing : Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (275 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611477955
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Elsa Morante's Politics of WritingDDC classification:
  • 858.91209
LOC classification:
  • PQ4829.O615 Z614 20
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- New Approaches to Morante's Oeuvre -- Elsa Morante's Correspondence -- Writing: A Lifelong Affair -- In the Realm of the Lie -- Morante and Kafka -- Elsa Morante -- Excursus as Narrative Technique in La Storia -- "The World Must Be the Writer's Concern" -- In Marguerite Caetani's Literary Salon -- Theater, Visual Arts, and Cinema -- "Lo Scialle Andaluso" -- Elsa Morante's Pictorial References and Ekphrasis in Alibi -- Senza i conforti della religione -- Arturo in the World of the "Pharisee Fathers" -- No Novel Is an Island -- The Myth of Childhood -- Staging a Writer's Journey -- Queering Morante:Bodies that Matter from Diario 1938 to Aracoeli -- "Tuo scandalo tuo splendore" -- Differently Queer -- Kaleidoscopic Sexualities -- Morante's Essays: The Self, Society, and Art -- Between Perception and Prophecy -- "Pro o Contro La rabbia " -- Timely Anachronisms -- Index -- About the Authors.
Summary: This book revisits the philosophy and aesthetic Elsa Morante outlined in her literary writings. 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.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- New Approaches to Morante's Oeuvre -- Elsa Morante's Correspondence -- Writing: A Lifelong Affair -- In the Realm of the Lie -- Morante and Kafka -- Elsa Morante -- Excursus as Narrative Technique in La Storia -- "The World Must Be the Writer's Concern" -- In Marguerite Caetani's Literary Salon -- Theater, Visual Arts, and Cinema -- "Lo Scialle Andaluso" -- Elsa Morante's Pictorial References and Ekphrasis in Alibi -- Senza i conforti della religione -- Arturo in the World of the "Pharisee Fathers" -- No Novel Is an Island -- The Myth of Childhood -- Staging a Writer's Journey -- Queering Morante:Bodies that Matter from Diario 1938 to Aracoeli -- "Tuo scandalo tuo splendore" -- Differently Queer -- Kaleidoscopic Sexualities -- Morante's Essays: The Self, Society, and Art -- Between Perception and Prophecy -- "Pro o Contro La rabbia " -- Timely Anachronisms -- Index -- About the Authors.

This book revisits the philosophy and aesthetic Elsa Morante outlined in her literary writings. 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.

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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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