Enlightening Encounters: Photography in Italian Literature

Photo-Literary Encounters in Italy (Giorgia Alù and Nancy Pedri)

Part One: The Lure of Photography

1. Spectres of Photography: Photography, Literature, and the Social Sciences in Fin-de-Siècle Italy (Maria Grazia Lolla)

2. Authoring Images: Italo Calvino, Gianni Celati, and Photography as Literary Art (Pasquale Verdicchio)

3. Fossati’s and Messori’s Vision of Landscape in Viaggio in un paesaggio terrestre (Marina Spunta)

Part Two: Photography Structuring Narrative

4. The Fiction of Photography: Vittorio Imbriani’s Merope IV – Sogni e fantasie di Quattr’Asterischi (1867) (Sarah A. Carey)

5. Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri De Luca’s Non ora, non qui (Nancy Pedri)

Part Three: Narrated Photographs and Photographs Narrating

6. Photo-Poems: Visual Impact Strategies and Photo-Story in the Work of Mario Giacomelli and Luigi Crocenzi (Marco Andreani)

7. What the Writer Saw (and the Camera Didn’t): Antonio Tabucchi’s Notturno indiano and Daniele Del Giudice’s Lo stadio di Wimbledon (Donata Panizza)

8. Photographs Illustrating and Photographs Telling: Exercises in Reading Lalla Romano and Elio Vittorini (Epifanio Ajello)

Part Four: Through the Lens

9. Narrative Scopophilia as Seen through the Lens of a Photographic Camera: Intersemiotic Translation and Voyeurism in L’uomo che guarda (1985) (Mariarita Martino)

10. Photography into the Limelight: Andrea De Carlo’s Treno di panna (Sarah Patricia Hill)

11. Looking through Coloured Shards: Words and Images in Ornela Vorpsi’s Works (Giorgia Alù)

Writing with Light: Concluding Remarks (Giorgia Alù And Nancy Pedri)