Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples

The Body of Naples
Herausgeber: Giardino, Alessandro

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, and theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural space in which the body functions as a visual, literary, and urban metaphor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781498563987
• ISBN-10: 1498563988
• Artikelnr.: 48894441

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Giardino is assistant professor of Italian and Francophone studies at St. Lawrence University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Alessandro Giardino
Chapter 1: Giordano Bruno: Between the Renaissance and Baroque
Lara Harwood-Ventura
Chapter 2: Caravaggio: Women from the Margins
Alessandro Giardino
Chapter 3: "A Woodsy Scene:" Sexual Innuendoes and Eroticism in
Giambattista Basile's Toponomastic
Marino Forlino
Chapter 4: Pulcinella and Capitan Matamoros: Staging the Body of Naples in
a Cloak-and-Dagger Neapolitan Drama
Marcella Salvi
Chapter 5: The Prince of San Severo's Esoteric Baroque: Body and Soul in
the Museum and Cappella di San Severo
Clorinda Donato
Chapter 6: Matteo Garrone's The Tale of Tales: Visual Metaphors and
Transmedial Storytelling
Carmela Benedetta Scala