Anna Maria Ortese

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

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gian Maria Annovi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release : 2015-01-01
File : 498 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781442649002


Loss And The Other In The Visionary Work Of Anna Maria Ortese

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This book examines the vre of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) from her first literary writings in the Thirties to her great novels in the Nineties. The analysis focusses on two interweaving core themes, loss and the Other. It begins with the shaping of personal loss of an Other following death, separation, abandonment, coupled with melancholy for life's transience as depicted in autobiographical works and in her masterpiece Il porto di Toledo. The book then addresses Ortese's literary engagement with social themes in realist stories set in post-war Naples in her collection Il mare non bagna Napoli and then explores her continuing preoccupation with socio-ethical issues, imbued with autobiographical elements, in non-realist texts, including her masterful novels L'Iguana, Il cardillo addolorato and Alonso e i visionari The book combines theme and genre analysis, highlighting Ortese's adoption and hybridization of diverse literary forms such as poetry, the novel, the short story, the essay, autobiography, realism, fairy tales, fantasy, allegory. In her work Ortese weaves an ongoing dialogue with literary and non-literary works, through direct quotations, allusions, echoes, adoption of motifs and topoi. The book thus highlights the intertextual relationship with her sources: Leopardi, Dante, Petrarch, Manzoni, Collodi, Montale, Serao; Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Blake, Joyce, Conrad, Melville, Poe, Hawthorne, Hardy; Manrique, Gongora, de Quevedo, Villalón, Bello, Cantar del mio Cid; Heine, Valery, Puccini's Madam Butterfly, folklore, popular songs, and the Bible. Ortese thus shapes her literary themes in the background of social, political and economic upheavals over six decades of Italian history, culminating in an allegorical critique of modernity and a call for a renewed bond between humans and the Other.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Vilma De Gasperin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2014-03-27
File : 319 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191655111


Italian Women And The City

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Studies of the city, and of women's experiences of the city, have focused primarily on modern times, especially as modernism was defined in large part by urban life. Italy, however, has a long history of urban-centered culture, and women have been a vocal part of that culture since the Renaissance. This volume, therefore, looks at the art and literature of both earlier and more modern periods to investigate the meanings of the city for Italian women, the intensely gendered meanings (for both sexes) of those city spaces that excluded women, and the conditions that permitted a limited permeability of gendered boundaries. Two aspects to the combination of "women" and "city" are salient to these investigations. One involves their metaphorical relationship. Urbs, citta, ville -- the words for city tend to be grammatically feminine, and a long tradition of representation associates the city. with a woman. Women, especially writers, could exploit, modify, or resist the prevailing uses of such metaphors. The second aspect of connection involves social realities. What was or is the relation of the (female) city with the real women who inhabit it? What kind of site has it provided for women seeking a satisfying life for themselves? How has art and literature, by men and by women, represented the relationship of female persons or characters to urban spaces?

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Janet Levarie Smarr
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release : 2003
File : 252 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0838639658


Encyclopedia Of Italian Literary Studies A J

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Genre : Italian literature
Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2007
File : 2258 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781579583903


Encyclopedia Of Italian Literary Studies

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The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2006-12-26
File : 2258 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135455293


Delirious Naples

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This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresistibly attractive. The essays attempt to give some hints to the answer of the enigma, without parsing it into neat scholastic formulas. In doing this, the book will be an important means of opening Naples to students, scholars and members of the community at large who are engaged in “identity-work.” A primary goal has been to establish a dialogue with leading Neapolitan intellectuals and artists, and, ultimately, ensure that the “deliriously Neapolitan” dance continues.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Pellegrino D'Acierno
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Release : 2018-12-11
File : 355 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780823280001


A Music Behind The Wall

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A collection of surrealistic stories by a late Italian writer. Typical is The Villa, in which a man buys his mother a villa in heaven so she can have a place to entertain.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Anna Maria Ortese
Publisher : McPherson
Release : 1994
File : 168 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015032551908


Writings On Twentieth Century Italian Literature 1964 1984

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Genre : Italian literature
Author : Michele Ricciardelli
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Release : 1992
File : 124 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015029519983


Mla International Bibliography Of Books And Articles On The Modern Languages And Literatures

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Genre : Languages, Modern
Author :
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Release : 2007
File : 2426 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000057121345


Romanticism In Its Modern Aspects

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Genre : Comparative literature
Author : Virgil Nemoianu
Publisher : Griffon House Publications
Release : 1998
File : 150 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106014833344