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Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples - The Body of Naples

English · Hardback

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This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, and theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural space in which the body functions as a visual, literary, and urban metaphor.

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Introduction
Alessandro Giardino

Chapter 1: Giordano Bruno: Between the Renaissance and Baroque
Lara Harwood-Ventura

Chapter 2: Caravaggio: Women from the Margins
Alessandro Giardino

Chapter 3: "A Woodsy Scene:" Sexual Innuendoes and Eroticism in Giambattista Basile's Toponomastic
Marino Forlino

Chapter 4: Pulcinella and Capitan Matamoros: Staging the Body of Naples in a Cloak-and-Dagger Neapolitan Drama
Marcella Salvi

Chapter 5: The Prince of San Severo's Esoteric Baroque: Body and Soul in the Museum and Cappella di San Severo
Clorinda Donato

Chapter 6: Matteo Garrone's The Tale of Tales: Visual Metaphors and Transmedial Storytelling
Carmela Benedetta Scala


About the author

Marcella Salvi is associate professor of Italian and Spanish at St. Lawrence University.

Product details

Authors Alessandro Giardino
Assisted by Alessandro Giardino (Editor)
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2018
 
EAN 9781498563987
ISBN 978-1-4985-6398-7
No. of pages 158
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history

Europe, ART / European, History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, baroque, Art & design styles: Baroque, The Arts: treatments and subjects, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo

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