Loss and the other in the visionary work of Anna Maria Ortese / Vilma DeGasperin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeGasperin, Vilma, author.

Series:

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.

Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ortese, Anna Maria--Criticism and interpretation.

Ortese, Anna Maria.

Loss (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text explores the literary work of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998), one of the greatest and most original writers in 20th-century Italian and European literature and shows the intense relationship between Ortese's texts and masterpieces of European literature.

Contents:

Cover; Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; WORKS BY ANNA MARIA ORTESE; TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS BY ANNA MARIA ORTESE; OTHER WORKS; Introduction; LOSS AND THE OTHER; CHAOS AND FORM; 1: Beginnings; FROM LOSS TO FORM IN ORTESE'S EARLY WRITINGS; THE ELEGY 'MANUELE'; BROTHERS AND FAREWELLS; The encroaching end of youth: 'Pellerossa'; 'Il capitano': brother and adulthood; LOVE AND MELANCHOLY IN 'LA CURA'; 2: Fictional Autobiography

IL PORTO DI TOLEDO: THE FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN INVENTED ISTRUCTURE, LANGUAGE, AND INTERTEXTUALITY; 'AH, YOUTH IS SPENT': LEOPARDI'S THEME OF YOUTH; Damasa, the Melancholy Poet; Beauty, death, and writing: Conte D'Orgaz; Rassa and the 'Age of Desolation'; THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE: PAUL VALÉRY AND FERNANDO VILLALÓN; 3: Realist Short Stories; NAPLES AND THE CALL FOR SOCIAL REALISM: IL MARE NON BAGNA NAPOLI; THE FORBIDDEN SEA AND THE AVERTED GAZE; THE BATTLE OF REASON; JOURNEY THROUGH HELL: 'LA CITTÀ INVOLONTARIA'; LAST FLICKERS OF HOPE: 'INTERNO FAMILIARE'

REALITY AND THE END OF CHILDHOOD: EUGENIA AND PAPELE4: Fairy Tales; ELVES AND THEIR TALES; Fairy tales; Elves: monaciello and folletto; ECHO OF A HAPPY TIME: 'IL MONACIELLO DI NAPOLI'; Storytelling; Figura of a lost world; 'Echo of a happy time'; The urchins: Nicola and Pinocchio; 'FOLLETTO A GENOVA'; Up the staircase into the fairy tale; Stellino, elf and child; IL CARDILLO ADDOLORATO: FAIRY TALE AND HISTORY; A narrative kaleidoscope; Hieronymus Käppchen: Nature's old child; The Rights of Man and the 'underground people'; 5: Animal Allegories; HUMANITY'S CARDINAL SIN: 'PICCOLO DRAGO'

FANTASY AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE IN L'IGUANA'A most strange story': theatre, dream, and the critique of realism; Ocaña, the imaginary island; Iguana: the shaping of the Other; Social critique and the paradigm of colonization; Daddo's ethical journey; THE SWANSONG: ALONSO E I VISIONARI; Fable, crime fiction, epistolary novel, and prayer; Paradise lost: loss, mourning, crime, and expiation; Alonso, 'metaphor of lost things'; Adieus and returns; Conclusion; Bibliography; WORKS BY ANNA MARIA ORTESE; English Translations; Selected Literary Texts in Journals; Selected Articles; SECONDARY SOURCES

Selected Interviews with Anna Maria OrteseCriticism on Anna Maria Ortese; Other Literary Works; Criticism and other Texts; Reference; Television and Online Resources; Index

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-967381-0

0-19-165511-2

OCLC:

878148260