Anna Maria Ortese : celestial geographies / edited by Gian Maria Annovi and Flora Ghezzo ; with an interview with the author by Dacia Maraini.
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TextSeries: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (498 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781442619227 (e-book)
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- PQ4875.R8 .A563 2015
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Reviews provided by Syndetics
CHOICE Review
Despite being easily one of the most interesting Italian writers of the late 20th century, Ortese (1914-1998) has so far attracted relatively little attention from English-speaking scholars: a single monograph (Vilma De Gasperin's Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese, 2014), a scattering of articles, and translations of some--but by no means all--of her novels and short stories. In this volume, however, 14 contributors (the editors included) introduce readers to various aspects of Ortese's writing. Annovi (Univ. of Southern California) and Ghezzo (La Scuola D'Italia, New York City) organized the essays under four headings: "From Naples to Paris (via Jerusalem): Modern Alienation and Utopian Reality" (the interplay of realism and the imagined in Ortese's fictional worldview); "Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self" (autobiographical elements in her work); "On Becoming Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of Otherness" (ecological themes and representation of non-human creatures); and "An Uncommon Reader" (Ortese's critical writings). This reviewer hopes this sumptuously produced, skillfully edited collection of essays will help bring Ortese's work to the large audience it undoubtedly deserves. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. --Steven Botterill, University of California, BerkeleyThere are no comments on this title.