Delirious Naples

A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

Pellegrino D'Acierno, Stanislao G. Pugliese (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2018
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-7998-2 (ISBN)

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An 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.

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 itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresistibly attractive. The essays attempt to give some hints to the answer of the enigma, without parsing it into neat scholastic formulas. In doing this, the book will be an important means of opening Naples to students, scholars and members of the community at large who are engaged in “identity-work.” A primary goal has been to establish a dialogue with leading Neapolitan intellectuals and artists, and, ultimately, ensure that the “deliriously Neapolitan” dance continues.

Stanislao G. Pugliese (Edited By) Stanislao G. Pugliese is Professor of Modern European History and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. His most recent book is Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone, winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. He is the author of Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall (Fordham). Pellegrino D'Acierno (Edited By) Pellegrino D'Acierno is Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University.

Acknowledgements

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

CONTRIBUTORS

Erscheinungsdatum	26.09.2018
Co-Autor	Theresa Aiello, B. Amore, Andrea Baldi
Zusatzinfo	30 Color Illustrations; 28 Black and White Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8232-7998-7 / 0823279987
ISBN-13	978-0-8232-7998-2 / 9780823279982
Zustand	Neuware