{"product_id":"anna-maria-ortese-9781442649002","title":"Anna Maria Ortese","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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. \u003cem\u003eAnna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies\u003c\/em\u003e features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing 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 The essays are complemented by material translated here for the first time: Ortese’s unpublished letters to her mentor, the writer Massimo Bontempelli; and an extended interview with Ortese by fellow Italian novelist Dacia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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This sumptuously produced, skillfully edited collection of essays will help bring Ortese's work to the large audience it undoubtedly deserves... Highly recommended.' -- S. Botterill Choice Magazine vol 53:03:2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel (Flora Ghezzo)  PART I: 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 (Lucia Re)  2. Cities \"Paved with Causalties\": Ortese's Journeys through Urban Modernity (Andrea Baldi)  3. Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese, Hannah Arendt and the Artist as \"Conscious Pariah\" (Cristina Della Coletta)  PART II: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self  4. Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese's Letters to Massimo Bontempelli (Amelia Moser)  Four Letters of Anna Maria Ortese to Massimo Bontempelli and a Condolence Letter to Paola Masino  5. Anna Maria Ortese's Precocious Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of Angelici dolori (Luigi Fontanella)   6. The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e semplici (and Back) (Beatrice Manetti)  7. On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the Autobiography of the Ephemeral (Flora Ghezzo)   PART III: Becoming a Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of the Otherness  8. Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese's \"Real Children of the Universe\" (Inge Lanslots)  9. \"Call Me My Name\": The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America (Gian Maria Annovi)  10. The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese's Il cardillo addolorato and a Critique of European Modernity (Gala Rebane)  11. The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web (Margherita Pieracci Harwell)  12. Alonso, the Poet and the Killer. Ortese's Eco-logical Reading of Modern Western History (Tatiana Crivelli)  PART IV: An Uncommon Reader  13. An \"Uncommon Reader\": The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese (Monica Farnetti)  Appendix: Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese (Dacia Maraini)  Works by Anna Maria Ortese","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359426019671,"sku":"9781442649002","price":62.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442649002.jpg?v=1754124610","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anna-maria-ortese-9781442649002","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}