Elsa Morante's politics of writing : rethinking subjectivity, history, and the power of art / edited by Stefania Lucamante.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lucamante, Stefania, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985--Criticism and interpretation.

Morante, Elsa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>This book revisits the philosophy and aesthetic Elsa Morante outlined in her literary writings, essays, articles, reviews, and poetry. 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. </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: New Approaches to Morante's Oeuvre; 1 Elsa Morante's Correspondence; 2 Writing: A Lifelong Affair; 3 In the Realm of the Lie; 4 Morante and Kafka; 5 Elsa Morante; 6 Excursus as Narrative Technique in La Storia; 7 "The World Must Be the Writer's Concern"; 8 In Marguerite Caetani's Literary Salon; II: Theater, Visual Arts, and Cinema; 9 "Lo Scialle Andaluso"; 10 Elsa Morante's Pictorial References and Ekphrasis in Alibi; 11 Senza i conforti della religione; 12 Arturo in the World of the "Pharisee Fathers"; 13 No Novel Is an Island

14 The Myth of Childhood15 Staging a Writer's Journey; III: Queering Morante:Bodies that Matter from Diario 1938 to Aracoeli; 16 "Tuo scandalo tuo splendore"; 17 Differently Queer; 18 Kaleidoscopic Sexualities; IV: Morante's Essays: The Self, Society, and Art; 19 Between Perception and Prophecy; 20 "Pro o Contro La rabbia"; 21 Timely Anachronisms; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61147-796-4

1-61147-795-6

OCLC:

899158561