Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments 7 Introduction: Monsters and Discourse on the Human 9 Kealajewell Vart v. Modern Horrors 1. Creatures of Difference: Myths of Monstrosity in 27 Savinio's La nostra anima Kealajewell 2. "Mon maitre, mon monstre": 51 Primo Levi and Monstrous Science Nancy Harroivitz 3. Monstrous Murder: Serial Killers and Detectives in 65 Contemporary Italian Fiction Ellen Nerenberg 4. The Mother of All Horror: Witches, Gender, 89 and the Films of Dario Argento Jacqueline Reich Vart2: Monsters andConception 5. Dante's "dolce serena" and the Monstrosity of the Female Body 109 Naomi Yavneh 6. "A la tetta de la madre s'apprende": The Monstrous Nurse 137 in Dante's Grammar of Selfhood Gary P. Cestaro 7. Incredible Sex: Witches, Demons, and Giants 153 in the Early Modern Imagination Walter Stephens CONTENTS Vart3: Monsters ancfvoetics 8. Monstrous Movements and Metaphors in 179 Dante's Divine Comedy VirginiaJewiss 9. Monstrous Language, Monstrous Bodies: 191 Bartolotti's Macharonea Medicinalis AntonellaAnsani 10. Girolamo Parabosco's UHermajrodito: 203 An Irregular Commedia Regolare Suzanne Magnanini 11. Ogres and Fools: On the Cultural Margins of the Seicento 222 Nancy L. Canepa 12. Reforming the Monster: Manzoni and the Grotesque 247 Robert S. Dombroski ?art4: The Monster as Discourse 13. The Monster as a Refugee 265 Ginevra Bompiani 14. Per Speculum Melancholiae: The Awakening of 279 Reason Engenders Monsters Massimo Riva 15. Monstrous Knowledge 297 Barbara Spackman Contributors 311 Index 315 ...