The Works of Elena Ferrante

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 My Brilliant Friend, Grace Russo Bullaro. - Indexicalities of Language in Ferrante s Neapolitan Novels: 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 My Brilliant Friend: in search of Parthenope and the Founding of a New City, Franco Gallippi. - Performative Realism and Post-humanism in The Days of Abandonment, Enrica Maria Ferrara. - Elena Ferrante s Visual Poetics: Ekphrasis in Troubling Love, My Brilliant Friend, and 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: Refiguring Maternity in Elena Ferrante s 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