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The power of disturbance : Elsa Morante's Aracoeli

Title: The power of disturbance : Elsa Morante's Aracoeli / edited by Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna.
Publication: London : Legenda, 2009.

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xii, 189 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

""Aracoeli" (1982) was the last novel written by Elsa Morante (1912-85), one of the most significant Italian writers of the twentieth century. The journey, both geographical and memorial, of a homosexual son in search of his dead mother is a first-person narrative that has puzzled many critics for its darkness and despair. By combining scholars from different disciplines and cultural traditions, this volume re-evaluates the esthetical and theoretical complexity of Morante's novel and argues that it engages with crucial philosophical and epistemological questions in an original and profound way. Contributors explore the manifold tensions staged by the novel in connection with contemporary philosophical discourse (from feminist/queer to political theory to psycho-analysis) and authors (such as Emilio Gadda, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pedro Almodovar). "The Power of Disturbance" shows that by creating a 'hallucinatory' representation of the relationship between mother and child, "Aracoeli" questions the classical distinction between subject and object, and proposes an altogether new and subversive kind of writing. Manuele Gragnolati teaches Italian literature at Oxford University, where he is a Fellow of Somerville College. Sara Fortuna teaches philosophy of language at the Universita Guglielmo Marconi in Rome."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Konferenzschrift.

Note

"The symposium on Elsa Morante at which the essays contained in this volume were first presented took place on 11-12 April 2008 at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) ... " -- Acknowledgments, p. [ix].

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index.
Filmography: p. 183.

Contents

Introduction / Sara Fortuna and Manuele Gragnolati -- Between affection and discipline: exploring linguistic tensions from Dante to Aracoeli / Sara Fortuna and Manuele Gragnolati -- Seeing and telling: anamorphosis, relational identity, and other perspectival perplexities in Aracoeli / Rebecca West -- Resisting paranoia: poesis and politics in Aracoeli / Florian Mussgnug -- "The lower of a hybrid": memory and fantasy in Aracoeli / Christoph F.E. Holzhey -- Scene madri: psychoanalytic visions from Aracoeli to Volver / Vittorio Lingiardi -- Baubo -- another and additional name of Aracoeli: Morante's queer feminism / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky -- Staging the passion of Aracoeli / Agnese Grieco -- Aracoeli and Gadda's La cognizione del dolore: disturbed sons, disturbing mothers / Giuseppe Stellardi -- Politics and sexuality in Pasolini's Petrolio / Francesca Cadel -- Between Italy and Spain: the tragedy of history and the salvific power of love in Elsa Morante and María Zambrano / Elisa Martínez Garrido -- The womb of dreams: Cabbalistic themes and images in Elsa Morante's Aracoeli / Sergio Parussa -- Morante and Weil: the aporiae of history and the end of the fairy tale / Claude Cazalé Bérard -- Indian traces: Aracoeli, Pasolini's L'odore dell'India, and Moravia's Un'idea dell'India / Mimma Congedo.

ISBN

9781906540500
1906540500

LCCN

2010275802

OCLC

ocn319501902
319501902
SCSB-14523372

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library