Delirious Naples : a cultural history of the city of the sun / Pellegrino D'Acierno and Stanislao G. Pugliese, editors.
This book is addressed to "lovers of paradoxes" and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents it...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Delirious Naples; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword. Returning to The Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte; Preface. The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples; Introduction: Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse; Learning from Contemporary Naples/Writing as a Neapolitan; 1. Napòlide: A Man without Naples; 2. Scuorno (Vergogna); The View from America; 3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide; 4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: "Rough Magic"; or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore's Naples/ New York Installation.
- 5. One Early Twenty-First Century Summer in Naples6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a "Newpolitan" Approach to Popular Culture; 7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists; 8. You Want to Be Americano?; History, Memory, and Mercy; 9. Words in Journey: Echoes from Pompeii; 10. One of These Days; 11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of Southcentric Cosmopolitanism; 12. The Delirium of the Neapolitan Baroque; 13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment; 14. Caravaggio's Mercy in Naples.
- Malanapoli: From the Lazaronitum to Gomorrah/Camorra15. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet; 16. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story; Writing and Singing Naples; 17. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples?; 18. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo's Beloved Whore; 19. Matilde Serao's Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto; 20. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples; 21. Poetry; 22. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story about Stories; Omaggi, or Parole d'Ammore; 23. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard; 24. A Tribute to John Turturro's Passione.
- 25. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas BelmonteAcknowledgments; List of Contributors.