Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples - The Body of Naples

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.

List of contents

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