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Elena Ferrante Research Papers - Academia.edu
La narrativa globale: scrivere nel mondo del XXI secolo. La narrativa globale è lo specchio e la lampada dell'epoca globale. Quando la globalizzazione è entrata nel vocabolario comune negli anni '80, una nozione di narrativa globale è a... more
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      World LiteraturesComparative LiteratureFrench LiteratureSpanish Literature
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      ArtNarrativeItalian LiteratureContemporary Literature
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      Comparative LiteratureArtLabyrinthsItalian Literature
The article contends that Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels occupy a special place among contemporary literature in that they superficially adopt traditional modes of storytelling, typically associated with the nineteenth century... more
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      Comparative LiteratureItalian StudiesItalian LiteratureFeminism
Chapter from edited volume by Grace Bullaro and Stephanie Love
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      EducationModernityItalyMikhail Bakhtin
Impaginazione e servizi editoriali: Pagina soc. coop., Bari Finito di stampare nell'ottobre 2018 da Grafiche VD srl, Città di Castello (PG) isbn 978-88-430-8961-1 Riproduzione vietata ai sensi di legge (art. 171 della legge 22 aprile... more
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      Italian StudiesItalian LiteratureItalo CalvinoContemporary Italian Literature
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      Comparative LiteratureItalian LiteratureWorld LiteratureContemporary Italian Literature
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      Italian StudiesLiterary Theory20th Century Italian LiteratureContemporary Italian Literature
Dopo il successo della prima stagione, il 10 Febbraio torna su Rai1 e RaiPlay la seconda serie dell'Amica geniale, intitolata Storia del nuovo cognome. L'ambizione di questa imponente coproduzione tra HBO, Rai, Wildside e Fandango è... more
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      Domestic ViolenceStorytellingViolence Against WomenFeminist film theory
http://www.casaitaliananyu.org/multimedia This talk explores Naples as the architectonic setting of Elena Ferrante’s novel My Brilliant Friend through the lens of classical mythology and urban sociology. It examines the city – and more... more
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      MythologyItalian StudiesNarrativeLabyrinths
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      World LiteraturesComparative LiteratureItalian LiteratureWorld Literature
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" could be the epigraph of Elena Ferrante's book The Lying Life of Adults (translated by Ann Goldstein), the "tangled knot" of truth and lies in which the first-person narrator Giovanna pours her... more
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      Italian StudiesLiteratureItalian LiteratureElena Ferrante
This article studies a version of female development contained in Elena Ferrante‘s My Brilliant Friend, one that opposes the typically male development of the Bildungsroman. The Neapolitan novels invoke ideologies of development often... more
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      Feminist TheoryItalian StudiesItalian LiteratureContemporary Literature
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      Critical TheoryItalian LiteratureLiterary TheoryFeminism
Elena Ferrante’s novel My Brilliant Friend showcases the lives of mainly two girls growing up in a patriarchal society in Naples. This paper argues that living in that society, the formation of an identity as a young woman is very... more
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      ViolenceAbjectionFeminismWomen and Gender Studies
Il contributo prende in esame l’intera produzione narrativa di Elena Ferrante, letta all’insegna dell’unitarietà e della coesione. La coesione di fondo però convive con una discontinuità: l’apparizione dell’Amica geniale segna una svolta... more
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This articles explores representations of motherhood in two contemporary Italian female authors in the context of the demystification of motherhood in Italian culture.
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      Italian women writers20th Century Italian LiteratureLetteratura italiana moderna e contemporaneaMotherhood
This article shows how Elena Ferrante, in the second part of Storia della bambina perduta, deconstructs the traditionally author/reader dichotomy, where the two opposite entities interact according to a «narrative pact» based on the... more
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      Feminist TheoryItalian StudiesNarratologyWomen's Literature
Review of Lisa Mullenneaux's Naples' Little Women: The Fiction of Elena Ferrante
http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com/16-naples-little-women-the-fiction-of-elena-ferrante/
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      Gender StudiesLiterary CriticismGender and SexualityFeminism
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      Italian StudiesItalian Cultural StudiesItalian Literature20th Century Italian Literature
My paper proposes a comparative reading that explores the links between sexual/gendered violence, trauma and untold experience in the earlier works of Alice Sebold (Lucky, The Lovely Bones) and in a selection of Elena Ferrante’s texts... more
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      Trauma StudiesSexual and Gender-Based ViolenceAlice SeboldElena Ferrante
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      Gender StudiesWomen's StudiesGlobalizationStorytelling
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      PhilosophyAsceticismPoliticsJohn Dewey
Talk presented in the panel "Ferrante Unframed" at the 2019 conference of the Canadian Association for Italian Studies, in Orvieto
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      World LiteraturesGlobalizationFeminismGlobal Feminism
Set for the most part in a violent and poor post-Second World War Naples, Elena Ferrante's L'amica geniale (2011) [My Brilliant Friend (2012)] tetralogy, besides chronicling the lifelong friendship between the two main characters, Elena... more
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      Feminist TheoryWomen's HistoryWomen's Writing (Literature)Bildungsroman
This essay aims to investigate some of the factors that contribute to the global addiction caused by My Brilliant Friend starting from the hypothesis that the series is open to a plurality of transversal levels of interpretation. A first... more
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      Elena FerranteL'amica geniale My Brilliant Friend
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All'incrocio tra critica letteraria e filosofia, il volume esplora la scrittura di Elena Ferrante e il rapporto tra soggettività e narrazione, individuando tre diverse partizioni. Mitopoiesi rilegge il rapporto mitologico madre-figlia che... more
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      Critical TheoryWorld LiteraturesComparative LiteraturePhilosophy
This essay proposes that Elena Ferrante’s novels depict female friendship and collaboration as a literal and metaphorical positioning side by side that dislodges the androcentric, vertical hierarchies of intellectual labor, authorship,... more
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      Comparative LiteratureGender StudiesWomen's StudiesFeminist Theory
Con il termine glocalismo o glocalizzazione si intende la duplice spinta del mondo contemporaneo sia verso il globale che verso una dimensione invece prettamente locale. Questo concetto, formulato a partire dagli anni'80 nel contesto... more
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      Italian StudiesContemporary Italian LiteratureLetteratura italiana moderna e contemporaneaGlocalism
Ariadne and the Minotaur: Liminal Space, Urban Labyrinth and Feminine City in Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend
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      MythologyLabyrinthsItalian LiteratureWalter Benjamin
L'amica geniale, 2018. Ludovica Nasti interpreta Lila da piccola. Fotografia di Eduardo Castaldo. Courtesy HBO-RAI Fiction e TIMVISION. I primi episodi della serie televisiva L'amica geniale sono appena stati proiettati nei cinema... more
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      FemminismoElena FerranteGlobal Novel
A review of the first monograph on Elena Ferrante which provides an indispensable scholarly vademecum to navigate the labyrinthine oeuvre of the elusive Italian author. "Elena Ferrante’s Key Words" is a faithful rendition of the original... more
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      Gender StudiesItalian StudiesElena Ferrante
Il volume "Elena Ferrante. Parole chiave" si rivolge allo stesso pubblico trasversale e composito a cui ha parlato, in ogni parte del mondo, il ciclo dell’Amica geniale. L’Introduzione situa la scrittrice all’interno dell’immaginario... more
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      Italian Cultural StudiesWorld LiteratureGender And ViolenceNovel
At the center of her tetralogy, Elena Ferrante stages the manifold issues of female friendship and identity formation, of self-actualization and self-annihilation. The story of Lila and Lena, girls turned women in postwar Naples, unfolds... more
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      Italian StudiesItalian LiteratureNaplesWomen and Gender Studies
Bavimo se povezanosti klase i roda te funkcije koju ženski homosocijalni odnosi imaju u premošćivanju prepreka koje nastaju nejednakim startnim pozicijama pojedinki u samom romanu.Navrh želje da ispripovijeda snagu homosocijalne veze... more
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      ClassGenderHabitusElena Ferrante
What is Romance Studies? Or, better, what might Romance Studies be? For this is a discipline that at present does not exist; at best it is an administrative fiction, a product of top-down managerial fiat to divide up and categorize... more
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      Comparative LiteratureFrench LiteratureLiteratureSpanish Literature (Peninsular)
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      Contemporary LiteratureNovelContemporary Italian LiteratureHypermodernité
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      MythologyRitualWomen and Gender StudiesElena Ferrante
The dissolving of margins, or smarginatura, in My Brilliant Friend (MBF) is a state of multiplicitous dissolutions. At once physical, temporal, sentimental, material and psychological, it is a state the characters go through as much as... more
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      Gender StudiesItalian StudiesUrban StudiesItalian Literature
APSTRAKT Ovaj rad predstavlja kvir čitanje tetralogije romana Moja genijalna prijateljica (L'amica geniale 2011-2014) autorke Elene Ferante, sa fokusom na problemu narativne obrade seksualnosti i seksualnih i rodnih identiteta, specifično... more
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      Gender StudiesLiterary TheoryQueer Theory (Literature)Contemporary Literature
I analyze Elena Ferrante's book "Incidental Inventions" and specifically the "creation of the writer" through various forms of fragmentation and translation.
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      World LiteraturesComparative LiteratureVisual StudiesWomen's Studies
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      Translation StudiesItalian StudiesItalian LiteratureSwedish Literature
in "Allegoria", 73, 2016, XXVIII, pp. 123-131.
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      NarrativeNarrative TheoryWomens and Gender StudiesElena Ferrante
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      NarrativeWomen and Gender StudiesElena Ferrante
Partendo dalla forma auto/biografica di L’amica geniale verranno ricercate le strutture narrative che portano a una costruzione di una soggettività e di un’identità femminili e a una decostruzione dell’immagine di stampo patriarcale della... more
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      Feminist TheoryItalian LiteratureJudith ButlerContemporary Literature
Questo lavoro di tesi è dedicato all'analisi dell'opera della scrittrice (o dello scrittore) che si cela sotto lo pseudonimo "Elena Ferrante". Troppo spesso, in Italia, l'attenzione si è concentrata sulla ricerca della sua reale identità,... more
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      Italian StudiesItalian LiteratureItalian women writersWomen and Gender Studies
In my article I investigate the complex meaning of the Italian word geniale in Elena Ferrante's tetralogy L'amica geniale, employing the Latin concepts of genius, genialis and genius loci. In so doing, this work offers a reappraisal of... more
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      World LiteraturesComparative LiteratureItalian StudiesLiterature
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      Gender StudiesWomen's StudiesElsa MoranteNaples
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