Anna Maria Ortese : : Celestial Geographies / / ed. by Flora Ghezzo, Gian Maria Annovi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2015
• HerausgeberIn: Annovi, Gian Maria ,; Ghezzo, Flora,
• MitwirkendeR: Annovi, Gian Maria,; Baldi, Andrea,; Crivelli Speciale, Tatiana,; Della Colletta, Cristina,; Farnetti, Monica,; Fontanella, Luigi,; Ghezzo, Flora,; Lanslots, Inge,; Manetti, Beatrice,; Moser, Amelia,; Pieracci Harwell, Margherita,; Re, Lucia,; Rebane, Gala,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.) :; 4 b&w tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel --; Part One: From Naples to Paris (via Jerusalem): Modern Alienation and Utopian Reality --; 1. “Clouds in Front of My Eyes”: Ortese’s Poetics of the Gaze in “Un paio di occhiali” and Il mare non bagna Napoli --; 2. Cities “Paved with Casualties”: Ortese’s Journeys through Urban Modernity --; 3. Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese, Hannah Arendt, and the Artist as “Conscious Pariah” --; Part Two: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self --; 4. Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese’s Letters to Massimo Bontempelli --; 5. Anna Maria Ortese’s Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of Angelici dolori --; 6. The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e semplici (and Back) --; 7. On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the (Auto)fiction of the Ephemeral --; Part Three: On Becoming Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of Otherness --; 8. Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese’s “Real Children of the Universe” --; 9. “Call Me My Name”: The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America --; 10. The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese’s Il cardillo addolorato and the Critique of European Modernity --; 11. The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web --; 12. Alonso, the Poet and the Killer: Ortese’s Eco-logical Reading of Modern Western History --; Part Four: An Uncommon Reader --; 13. An “Uncommon Reader”: The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese --; Appendix Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese (1973) --; Primary Works by Anna Maria Ortese --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442619227; 9783111274027; 9783110439687; 9783110438673; 9783110606812
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442619227
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Flora Ghezzo, Gian Maria Annovi.

After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante. Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to Ortese’s work, the contributors to this collection map the author’s complex textual geography, with its overlapping literary genres, forms, and conceptual categories, and the rhetorical and narrative strategies that pervade Ortese’s many types of writing. The essays are complemented by material translated here for the first time: Ortese’s unpublished letters to her mentor, the writer Massimo Bontempelli; and an extended interview with Ortese by fellow Italian novelist Dacia Maraini.