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Book SynopsisEnlightening Encounters traces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day. Investigating the ways in which Italian literature has responded to photographic practice and aesthetics, the contributors use a wide range of theoretical perspectives to examine a variety of canonical and non-canonical authors and a broad selection of literary genres, including fiction, autobiography, photo-texts, and migration literature. The first collection in English to focus on photography’s reciprocal relationship to Italian literature, Enlightening Encounters represents an important resource for a number of fields, including Italian studies, literary studies, visual studies, and cultural studies.
Trade Review'A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of photography on Italian literary texts, published from mid-19th century onward... Essential.' -- C. De. Santi Choice Magazine vol 53:01:2015
Table of ContentsPhoto-Literary Encounters in Italy (Giorgia Alu and Nancy Pedri) Part One: The Lure of Photography 1. Spectres of Photography: Photography, Literature, and the Social Sciences in Fin-de-Siecle Italy (Maria Grazia Lolla) 2. Authoring Images: Italo Calvino, Gianni Celati, and Photography as Literary Art (Pasquale Verdicchio) 3. Fossati's and Messori's Vision of Landscape in Viaggio in un paesaggio terrestre (Marina Spunta) Part Two: Photography Structuring Narrative 4. The Fiction of Photography: Vittorio Imbriani's Merope IV - Sogni e fantasie di Quattr'Asterischi (1867) (Sarah A. Carey) 5. Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri De Luca's Non ora, non qui (Nancy Pedri) Part Three: Narrated Photographs and Photographs Narrating 6. Photo-Poems: Visual Impact Strategies and Photo-Story in the Work of Mario Giacomelli and Luigi Crocenzi (Marco Andreani) 7. What the Writer Saw (and the Camera Didn't): Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano and Daniele Del Giudice's Lo stadio di Wimbledon (Donata Panizza) 8. Photographs Illustrating and Photographs Telling: Exercises in Reading Lalla Romano and Elio Vittorini (Epifanio Ajello) Part Four: Through the Lens 9. Narrative Scopophilia as Seen through the Lens of a Photographic Camera: Intersemiotic Translation and Voyeurism in L'uomo che guarda (1985) (Mariarita Martino) 10. Photography into the Limelight: Andrea De Carlo's Treno di panna (Sarah Patricia Hill) 11. Looking through Coloured Shards: Words and Images in Ornela Vorpsi's Works (Giorgia Alu) Writing with Light: Concluding Remarks (Giorgia Alu And Nancy Pedri)
