Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Life and Works
—Stefania Lucamante and Sharon Wood

Strategies of Affabulation in Elsa Morante’s Diario 1938
— Elisa Gambaro, University of Milan

Elsa Morante, Translator of Katherine Mansfield
—Nicoletta Di Ciolla McGowan, Manchester Metropolitan University

Poetry and Reality in “The Aesthetics of Our Time”
—Marco Bardini, University of Pisa

Models of Narrative in Menzogna e sortilegio
—Sharon Wood, University of Leicester

House of Liars: The American Translation of Menzogna e sortilegio
— Marco Bardini, University of Pisa

The Morphology of Desire in Elsa Morante’s L’isola di Arturo
— Cristina Della Coletta, University of Virginia

The Maternal Boy: Manuele, or The Last Portrait of Morante’s Androgyny
—Hanna Serkowska, University of Warsaw

A Difficult Legacy: Morante’s Presence in Contemporary Italian Literature
—Concetta D’Angeli, University of Pisa

Teatro di guerra: Of History and Fathers
—Stefania Lucamante, The Catholic University of America

Narrative and Essays: The Ethical Commitment of Elsa Morante
—Enrico Palandri, University College, London

Elsa Morante and Pier Paolo Pasolini
—Walter Siti, University of L’Aquila

The “Dragon of Unreality" against the "Dream of a Thing”: On Morante and Pasolini
—Filippo La Porta

List of Contributors

Index

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