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Title: Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing
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Description: 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.
Author: Sharon Wood
Contributor: Stefania Lucamante (Edited by), Thomas Harrison (Contributions by), Claudia Karagoz (Contributions by), Gandolfo Cascio (Contributions by), Francesco Chillemi (Contributions by), Giovanna De Luca (Contributions by), Sarah Carey (Contributions by), Flavia Cartoni (Contributions by), Manuele Gragnolati (Contributions by), Claude Cazalé Bérard (Contributions by), Kenise Lyons (Contributions by), Gaetana Marrone (Contributions by), Daniele Morante (Contributions by), Maria Morelli (Contributions by), Gabrielle Orsi (Contributions by), Lorenzo Salvagni (Contributions by), Hanna Serkowska (Contributions by), Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Contributions by), Sharon Wood (Contributions by), Giuliana Zagra (Contributions by), Saskia Ziolkowski (Contributions by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1611477964
EAN: 9781611477962
ISBN: 9781611477962
Genre: Literary Criticism
Language: English
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 151mm
Item Width: 21mm
Item Weight: 440g
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Release Date: 14/11/2016
Subtitle: Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture
Release Year: 2016

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