Enlightening Encounters

Giorgia AlÙ teaches in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Sydney. Nancy Pedri is an associate professor in the Department of English at Memorial University.

• Photo-Literary Encounters in Italy (Giorgia AlÙ and Nancy Pedri)Part One: The Lure of Photography1. 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 Narrative4. 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 Narrating6. 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 Lens9. 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)

‘A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of photography on Italian literary texts, published from mid-19th century onward… Essential.’- C. De. Santi (Choice Magazine vol 53:01:2015)