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The Works of Elena Ferrante

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

Editors: Russo Bullaro, Grace; Love, Stephanie V.

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57580-7

ISBN: 978-1-137-59062-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 23, 2016

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction: Beyond the Margins: “Ferrante Fever” and Italian Female Writing

Bullaro, Grace Russo; Love, Stephanie V.

Pages: 1 –12

[The main focus of this chapter is a recurring theme in the first three books of My Brilliant Friend, which concerns the art of writing. In this Neapolitan epic, therefore, the question of writing about the city of Naples is the problem that Ferrante implicitly and explicitly addresses. And it is...
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The Era of the “Economic Miracle” and the Force of Context in Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend

Bullaro, Grace Russo

Pages: 15 –44

[In 1963, President John Kennedy described Italy’s economic miracle in this manner: “the growth of […] nation’s economy, industry, and living standards in the postwar years has truly been phenomenal. A nation once literally in ruins, beset by heavy unemployment and inflation, has expanded its...
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Indexicalities of Language in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels: Dialect and Italian as Markers of Social Value and Difference

Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

Pages: 45 –70

[Across her Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante uses the language choices of her characters as a compelling narrative device, exploiting the rich semiotic potentials of Italian and dialect to situate characters in time and space, enhance the emotional stances of those characters, and highlight the...
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“An Educated Identity”: The School as a Modernist Chronotope in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels

Love, Stephanie V.

Pages: 71 –97

[This chapter explores the contrast between the school and the neighborhood as the primary symbolic, ideological, and embodied narrative dichotomy of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. This salient opposition operates as a metonym and metaphor for a series of other binaries characteristic of the...
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Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend: In Search of Parthenope and the “Founding” of a New City

Gallippi, Franco

Pages: 101 –127

[The main focus of this chapter is a recurring theme in the first three books of My Brilliant Friend, which concerns the art of writing. In this Neapolitan epic, therefore, the question of writing about the city of Naples is the problem that Ferrante implicitly and explicitly addresses. And it is...
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Performative Realism and Post-Humanism in The Days of Abandonment

Ferrara, Enrica Maria

Pages: 129 –157

[This chapter aims to explore the theoretical foundations of Ferrante’s novel, The Days of Abandonment, which can be linked to the concept of performative realism and to the author’s intention of reprogramming the cognitive subject in a post-human direction. The subversion of this traditional...
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Elena Ferrante’s Visual Poetics: Ekphrasis in Troubling Love, My Brilliant Friend, and The Story of a New Name

Milkova, Stiliana

Pages: 159 –182

[Prominent instances of ekphrasis—the literary description of an artwork—play a crucial role in Ferrante’s narratives. This chapter examines Ferrante’s strategic employment of visual images and articulates the role of ekphrasis as a narrative, thematic, and figurative device in Troubling Love,My...
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Metamorphosis and Rebirth: Greek Mythology and Initiation Rites in Elena Ferrante’s Troubling Love

de Rogatis, Tiziana

Pages: 185 –206

[The chapter interprets Troubling Love in the light of the myth of Demeter and Persephone and the rites connected to it. The thesis is that Ferrante was inspired by this myth and these rites, considering them in combination a vehicle that is able to represent feminine identity as a fabric in...
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Maternal Failure and Its Bequest: Toxic Attachment in the Neapolitan Novels

Maksimowicz, Christine

Pages: 207 –236

[Addressing the perplexity that readers have expressed in trying to make sense of the highly charged love/hate relationship lived between Elena and Lila, this chapter suggests that the otherwise inscrutable dimensions of the friendship become intelligible when understood as the inheritance of a...
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Breaking Bonds: Refiguring Maternity in Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter

Elwell, Leslie

Pages: 237 –269

[The Lost Daughter (2006) is a uniquely non-idealized maternal narrative that centers on the mothering of adult daughters. Elwell argues that The Lost Daughter both evokes and departs from its “mother-text,” A Woman. The implicit allusion to Aleramo’s novel links the texts’ protagonists in a...

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