Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing
Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art
Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing
Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art
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Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema, theatre, and the visual arts; new critical approaches to her four novels; treatment of body and sexual politics; and Morante’s prophetic voice as it emerges in both her literary works and her essayistic writings. Essays focus on Elsa Morante’s strategies to address her wide disinterest (and contempt) for the Italian intellectual status quo of her time, regardless of its political side, while showing at once her own kind of ideological commitment. Further, contributors tackle the ways in which Morante’s writings shape classical oppositions such as engagement and enchantment with the world, sin and repentance, self-reflection, and corporality, as well as how her engagement in the visual arts, theatre, and cinematic adaptations of her works garner further perspectives to her stories and characters. Her works—particularly the novels Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars, 1948), La Storia: Romanzo (History: A Novel, 1974) and, more explicitly, Aracoeli (Aracoeli, 1982)—foreshadowed and advanced tenets and structures later affirmed by postmodernism, namely the fragmentation of narrative cells, rhizomatic narratives, lack of a linear temporal consistency, and meta- and self-reflective processes.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Daniele Morante: “Elsa Morante's Correspondence: A New Source for the Artist's Biography”
Chapter 2: Giuliana Zagra: “Writing: A Lifelong Affair. Notes from the Elsa Morante Archives”
Part One: New Approaches to Morante's Oeuvre
Chapter 3: Francesco Chillemi: “In the Realm of the Lie: The Implosion of Thought and the Monsters of Reason in Menzogna e Sortilegio”
Chapter 4: Saskia Ziolkowski: “Morante and Kafka: The Gothic Walking Dead and Talking Animals”
Chapter 5: Sarah Carey: “Elsa Morante: Envisioning History”
Chapter 6: Sharon Wood: “Excursus as Narrative Technique in La Storia”
Chapter 7: Stefania Lucamante: “'The World Must Be the Writer's Concern': Elsa Morante's Visions of History”
Chapter 8: Lorenzo Salvagni: “In Marguerite Caetani's Literary Salon: a Study of Elsa Morante's Contributions to Botteghe Oscure”
Part Two: Theater, Visual Arts and Cinema
Chapter 9: Gabrielle Orsi: “Lo Scialle Andaluso: The Intimate Theater of Elsa Morante”
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Product details
| Published | Dec 18 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 294 |
| ISBN | 9781611477948 |
| Imprint | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Illustrations | 2 b/w photos; |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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