Enlightening Encounters

Giorgia Alù teaches in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Sydney. Nancy Pedri is an associate professor in the Department of English at Memorial University.

Photo-Literary Encounters in Italy (Giorgia Alù and Nancy Pedri)


Part One: The Lure of Photography


1. Spectres of Photography: Photography, Literature, and the Social Sciences in Fin-de-Siècle 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 Alù)


Writing with Light: Concluding Remarks (Giorgia Alù And Nancy Pedri)