Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

Stanislao G. Pugliese (Edited By) Stanislao G. Pugliese is Professor of Modern European History and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. His most recent book is Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone, winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. He is the author of Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall (Fordham). Pellegrino D'Acierno (Edited By) Pellegrino D'Acierno is Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University.

Acknowledgements Preface Returning to the Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte Theresa Aiello Foreword The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples Pellegrino D'Acierno and Stanislao Pugliese Introduction Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse Pellegrino D'Acierno LEARNING FROM CONTEMPORARY NAPLES/WRITING AS A NEAPOLITAN 1. Napolide: A Man Without Naples Erri de Luca 2. Scuorno (Vergogna) Francesco Durante THE VIEW FROM AMERICA 3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide B. Amore 4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: "Rough Magic" or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore's Naples/New York Installation Pellegrino D'Acierno 5. One Early Twenty-First Century Summer in Naples: A Personal Essay John Domini 6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a "Newpolitan" Approach to Popular Culture Simona Frasca 7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists Fred Gardaphe 8. You Want To Be Americano? Robert Zweig HISTORY, MEMORY & MERCY 9. Words in Journey: Echoes From Pompeii Angelo Cannavacciuolo 10. One of These Days Ilaria Marchesi and Simone Marchesi 11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of South-Centric Cosmopolitanism Patrizia La Trecchia 12. The Form and Language of the Neapolitan Baroque Nick Napoli 13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment Salvatore Napolitano 14. Caravaggio's Mercy in Naples Terence Ward MALANAPOLI: FROM THE LAZARONITUM TO GOMORRAH/CAMORRA 15. Il Paradiso Abitato da Diavoli: Naples as the Obscure Object of Discourse Pellegrino D'Acierno 16. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet Jason Pine 17. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story Valerio Caprara WRITING & SINGING NAPLES 18. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples? Andrea Baldi 19. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo's Beloved Whore Rose De Angelis 20. Matilde Serao's Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto Gabriella Romani 21. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples Joseph Rescigno 22. Poetry Charles Sant'Elia 23. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story About Stories Gioia Timpanelli OMAGGI, or PAROLE d'AMMORE 24. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard Joseph Connors and Jonathan Galassi 25. A Tribute to John Turturro's Passione Stanislao Pugliese 26. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte Pellegrino D'Acierno CONTRIBUTORS