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Enlightening Encounters : Photography in Italian Literature / ed. by Giorgia Alu, Nancy Pedri.
Enlightening 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442669895
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Photo-Literary Encounters in Italy -- Part One: The Lure of Photography -- 1. Spectres of Photography: Photography, Literature, and the Social Sciences in Fin-de-Siècle Italy -- 2. Authoring Images: Italo Calvino, Gianni Celati, and Photography as Literary Art -- 3. Fossati's and Messori's Vision of Landscape in Viaggio in un paesaggio terrestre -- Part Two: Photography Structuring Narrative -- 4. The Fiction of Photography: Vittorio Imbriani's Merope IV - Sogni e fantasie di Quattr'Asterischi (1867) -- 5. Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri De Luca's Non ora, non qui -- 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 -- 7. What the Writer Saw (and the Camera Didn't): Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano and Daniele Del Giudice's Lo stadio di Wimbledon -- 8. Photographs Illustrating and Photographs Telling: Exercises in Reading Lalla Romano and Elio Vittorini -- Part Four: Through the Lens -- 9. Narrative Scopophilia as Seen through the Lens of a Photographic Camera: Intersemiotic Translation and Voyeurism in Alberto Moravia's L'uomo che guarda (1985) -- 10. Photography into the Limelight: Andrea De Carlo's Treno di panna -- 11. Looking through Coloured Shards: Words and Images in Ornela Vorpsi's Works -- Writing with Light: Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in print. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
| Language Note: | In English. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) |
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| Subject: | Italian literature > History and criticism. Literature and photography > Italy > History. Photography in literature. Photography / History. |
