Delirious Naples : : A Cultural History of the City of the Sun / / ed. by Stanislao G. Pugliese, Pellegrino D'Acierno.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aiello, Theresa,; Amore, B.,; Baldi, Andrea,; Cannavacciuolo, Angelo,; Caprara, Valerio,; Connors, Joseph,; D'Acierno, Pellegrino,; De Angelis, Rose,; De Luca, Erri,; Domini, John,; Durante, Francesco,; Frasca, Simona,; Galassi, Jonathan,; Gardaphé, Fred,; La Trecchia, Patrizia,; Marchesi, Ilaria,; Marchesi, Simone,; Napoli, J. Nicholas,; Napolitano, Salvatore,; Pine, Jason,; Pugliese, Stanislao G.,; Rescigno, Joseph,; Romani, Gabriella,; Sant'Elia, Charles,; Timpanelli, Gioia,; Ward, Terence,; Zweig, Robert,
• TeilnehmendeR: Aiello, Theresa.; Amore, B.; Baldi, Andrea.; Cannavacciuolo, Angelo.; Caprara, Valerio.; Connors, Joseph.; DeAngelis, Rose.; Domini, John.; Durante, Francesco.; Frasca, Simona.; Galassi, Jonathan.; Gardaphe, Fred.; La Trecchia, Patrizia.; Marchesi, Ilaria.; Marchesi, Simone.; Napoli, Nick.; Napolitano, Salvatore.; Pell, Gregory.; Pine, Jason.; Rescigno, Joseph.; Romani, Gabriella.; Sant'Elia, Charles.; Timpanelli, Gioia.; Ward, Terrence.; Zweig, Robert.; de Luca, Erri.
• HerausgeberIn: D'Acierno, Pellegrino,; Pugliese, Stanislao G.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 26

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 it...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword. Returning to The Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte
• Preface. The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples
• Introduction: Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse
• Learning from Con temporary Naples/Writing as a Neapolitan
• 1. Napòlide: A Man without Naples
• 2. Scuorno (Vergogna)
• The View from America
• 3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide
• 4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: "Rough Magic"; or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore's Naples/ New York Installation
• 5. One Early TwentyFirst Century Summer in Naples
• 6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a "Newpolitan" Approach to Popular Culture
• 7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists
• 8. You Want to Be Americano?
• History, Memory, and Mercy
• 9. Words in Journey: Echoes from Pompeii
• 10. One of These Days
• 11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of Southcentric Cosmopolitanism
• 12. The Delirium of the Neapolitan Baroque
• 13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment
• 14. Caravaggio's Mercy in Naples
• Malanapoli: From the Lazaronitum to Gomorrah/Camorra
• 15. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet
• 16. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story
• Writing and Singing Naples
• 17. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples?
• 18. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo's Beloved Whore
• 19. Matilde Serao's Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto
• 20. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples
• 21. Poetry
• 22. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story about Stories
• Omaggi, or Parole d'Ammore
• 23. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard
• 24. A Tribute to John Turturro's Passione
• 25. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors