The Works of Elena Ferrante

<p>Introduction: Beyond the margins.- Beyond the margins: Ferrante fever and Italian female writing, Grace Russo Bullaro and Stephanie Love.- Part I: Notes in the margins: historicizing Ferrante’s fiction.- The era of the “economic miracle” and the force of context in Ferrante’s&nbsp;My Brilliant Friend, Grace Russo Bullaro.- Indexicalities of Language in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels:&nbsp;Dialect and Italian as Markers of Social Value and Difference, Jillian Cavanaugh.- “An educated identity”: The school as a modernist chronotope in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, Stephanie V. Love.- Part II: “All that’s left in the margins”: Ferrante’s poetics.- Elena Ferrante’s&nbsp;My Brilliant Friend: in search of Parthenope&nbsp;and the “Founding” of&nbsp;a New City, Franco Gallippi.- Performative Realism and Post-humanism in&nbsp;The Days of Abandonment, Enrica Maria Ferrara.- Elena Ferrante’s Visual Poetics: Ekphrasis in&nbsp;Troubling Love,&nbsp;My Brilliant Friend, and&nbsp;The Story of a New Name, Stiliana Milkova.- Part III: Smarginatura: Motherhood and female friendship.- Metamorphosis and Rebirth: Greek Mythology and Initiation Rites in Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love, Tiziana de Rogatis.- Maternal Failure and its Bequest: Toxic Attachment in the Neapolitan Novels, Christine Maksimowicz.- Breaking Bonds:&nbsp;Refiguring Maternity in Elena Ferrante’s&nbsp;The Lost Daughter, Leslie Elwell.- Telling the Abuse: A Feminist-Psychoanalytic Reading of Gender Violence, Repressed Memory and Female Subjectivity in Elena Ferrante’s Troubling Love, Nicoletta Mandolini.- Dixit Mater: The Significance of the Maternal Voice in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, Emma Van Ness.- Interview with Ann Goldstein, Grace Russo Bullaro and Stephanie Love.- List of Contributors.- Index</p>