Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Photo-Literary Encounters in Italy 3
6. Part One: The Lure of Photography
7. 1. Spectres of Photography: Photography, Literature, and the Social Sciences in Fin-de-Siècle Italy 27
8. 2. Authoring Images: Italo Calvino, Gianni Celati, and Photography as Literary Art 51
9. 3. Fossati’s and Messori’s Vision of Landscape in Viaggio in un paesaggio terrestre 70
10. Part Two: Photography Structuring Narrative
11. 4. The Fiction of Photography: Vittorio Imbriani’s Merope IV – Sogni e fantasie di Quattr’Asterischi (1867) 101
12. 5. Narrated Photographs and the Collapse of Time and Space in Erri De Luca’s Non ora, non qui 122
13. Part Three: Narrated Photographs and Photographs Narrating
14. 6. Photo-Poems: Visual Impact Strategies and Photo-Story in the Work of Mario Giacomelli and Luigi Crocenzi 141
15. 7. What the Writer Saw (and the Camera Didn’t): Antonio Tabucchi’s Notturno indiano and Daniele Del Giudice’s Lo stadio di Wimbledon 169
16. 8. Photographs Illustrating and Photographs Telling: Exercises in Reading Lalla Romano and Elio Vittorini 191
17. Part Four: Through the Lens
18. 9. Narrative Scopophilia as Seen through the Lens of a Photographic Camera: Intersemiotic Translation and Voyeurism in Alberto Moravia’s L’uomo che guarda (1985) 217
19. 10. Photography into the Limelight: Andrea De Carlo’s Treno di panna 233
20. 11. Looking through Coloured Shards: Words and Images in Ornela Vorpsi’s Works 254
21. Writing with Light: Concluding Remarks 279
22. Bibliography 285
23. Contributors 309
24. Index 313