UID:
almafu_9958352894402883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442619227
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian Studies
Content:
Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel --
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Part One: From Naples to Paris (via Jerusalem): Modern Alienation and Utopian Reality --
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1. “Clouds in Front of My Eyes”: Ortese’s Poetics of the Gaze in “Un paio di occhiali” and Il mare non bagna Napoli --
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2. Cities “Paved with Casualties”: Ortese’s Journeys through Urban Modernity --
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3. Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese, Hannah Arendt, and the Artist as “Conscious Pariah” --
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Part Two: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self --
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4. Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese’s Letters to Massimo Bontempelli --
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5. Anna Maria Ortese’s Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of Angelici dolori --
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6. The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e semplici (and Back) --
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7. On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the (Auto)fiction of the Ephemeral --
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Part Three: On Becoming Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of Otherness --
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8. Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese’s “Real Children of the Universe” --
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9. “Call Me My Name”: The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America --
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10. The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese’s Il cardillo addolorato and the Critique of European Modernity --
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11. The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web --
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12. Alonso, the Poet and the Killer: Ortese’s Eco-logical Reading of Modern Western History --
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Part Four: An Uncommon Reader --
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13. An “Uncommon Reader”: The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese --
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Appendix Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese (1973) --
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Primary Works by Anna Maria Ortese --
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Contributors --
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Index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442619227
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619227
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