| Description |
xiv, 395 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword. Returning to The Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte / Theresa Aiello -- Preface. The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples / Pellegrino D'Acierno and Stanislao G. Pugliese -- Introduction: Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse / Pellegrino D'Acierno -- Napòlide: A Man without Naples / Erri De Luca -- Scuorno (Vergogna) / Francesco Durante -- Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide / B. Amore -- Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: "Rough Magic"; or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore's Naples/ New York Installation / Pellegrino D'Acierno -- One Early Twenty-First Century Summer in Naples / John Domini -- Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a "Newpolitan" Approach to Popular Culture / Simona Frasca -- Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists / Fred Gardaphé -- You Want to Be Americano? / Robert Zweig -- Words in Journey: Echoes from Pompeii / Angelo Cannavacciuolo -- One of These Days / Ilaria Marchesi and Simone Marchesi -- Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of Southcentric Cosmopolitanism / Patrizia La Trecchia -- The Delirium of the Neapolitan Baroque / J. Nicholas Napoli -- The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment / Salvatore Napolitano -- Caravaggio's Mercy in Naples / Terence Ward -- The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet / Jason Pine -- Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story / Valeria Caprara -- Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples? / Andrea Baldi -- Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo's Beloved Whore / Rose De Angelis -- Matilde Serao's Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto / Gabriella Romani -- Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples / Joseph Rescigno -- Poetry / Charles Saint'Elia -- Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story about Stories / Gioia Timpanelli -- Tributes to Shirley Hazzard / Joseph Connors and Jonathan Galassi -- A Tribute to John Turturro's Passione / Stanislao G. Pugliese -- A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte / Pellegrino D'Acierno. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Naples (Italy) -- History.
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Naples (Italy) -- Social conditions.
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Naples (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Italy -- Naples.
(OCoLC)fst01204441
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
D'Acierno, Pellegrino, 1943- editor.
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Pugliese, Stanislao G., 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
0823279995 (paperback) |
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9780823279999 (paperback) |
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9780823279982 (hardcover) |
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0823279987 (hardcover) |
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