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Book SynopsisAn encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity in economic and political decline, despite its revival in the 1990s, that, nonetheless, produces a vital and profound intellectual life and a brilliant and exuberant artistic, literary and urban culture.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface
Returning to the Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte
Theresa Aiello
Foreword
The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples
Pellegrino D’Acierno and Stanislao Pugliese
Introduction
Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse
Pellegrino D’Acierno
LEARNING FROM CONTEMPORARY NAPLES/WRITING AS A NEAPOLITAN
1. Napòlide: A Man Without Naples
Erri de Luca
2. Scuorno (Vergogna)
Francesco Durante
THE VIEW FROM AMERICA
3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide
B. Amore
4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: “Rough Magic” or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore’s Naples/New York Installation
Pellegrino D’Acierno
5. One Early Twenty-First Century Summer in Naples: A Personal Essay
John Domini
6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a “Newpolitan” Approach to Popular Culture
Simona Frasca
7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists
Fred Gardaphé
8. You Want To Be Americano?
Robert Zweig
HISTORY, MEMORY & MERCY
9. Words in Journey: Echoes From Pompeii
Angelo Cannavacciuolo
10. One of These Days
Ilaria Marchesi and Simone Marchesi
11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of South-Centric Cosmopolitanism
Patrizia La Trecchia
12. The Form and Language of the Neapolitan Baroque
Nick Napoli
13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment
Salvatore Napolitano
14. Caravaggio’s Mercy in Naples
Terence Ward
MALANAPOLI: FROM THE LAZARONITUM TO GOMORRAH/CAMORRA
15. Il Paradiso Abitato da Diavoli: Naples as the Obscure Object of Discourse
Pellegrino D’Acierno
16. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet
Jason Pine
17. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story
Valerio Caprara
WRITING & SINGING NAPLES
18. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples?
Andrea Baldi
19. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo’s Beloved Whore
Rose De Angelis
20. Matilde Serao’s Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto
Gabriella Romani
21. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples
Joseph Rescigno
22. Poetry
Charles Sant’Elia
23. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story About Stories
Gioia Timpanelli
OMAGGI, or PAROLE d’AMMORE
24. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard
Joseph Connors and Jonathan Galassi
25. A Tribute to John Turturro’s Passione
Stanislao Pugliese
26. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte
Pellegrino D’Acierno
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