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This articles outlines the function of colors in Anna Maria Ortese's works and outlines some of its sources, including Melville and Poe's works
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The article outlines the forms and functions of Anna Maria Ortese’s palette in Neapolitan Chronicles. Moving through short stories, essays, and reportages, we can identify topical colors in Ortese’s work: gray, and the achromatic shades black and white. In addition to differentiating the roles of the color series, the article traces Chronicles’ literary genealogies, linking it to Melville and Poe’s works. Far from being a traditional colorist, Ortese gives life to a pictorial writing, which makes of the deformation of reality a key to a more vivid and acute perception of the world.
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First article fully analyzing the fuction of colors in Neapolitan Chronicles
Eloisa Morra
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Anna Maria Ortese’s palette: Colors and achromaticity in Neapolitan Chronicles, Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies, April 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0014585819835795.
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