Imaginary Films in Literature

Alternating theoretical essays with case studies, Imaginary Films in Literature focuses on a particular and suggestive form ofekphrasis: the description of imaginary, non-existent movies.

Stefano Ercolino, Ph.D. (2013), University of L’Aquila, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Underwood International College, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). He is the author ofThe Novel-Essay, 1884-1947 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” to Roberto Bolano’s “2666” (Bloomsbury, 2014). Massimo Fusillo, Ph.D. (1987), University of Calabria, is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of L’Aquila (Italy), and member of the Executive Council of the International Association of Comparative Literature. He is the author ofEstetica della letteratura, (Il Mulino, 2009; Machado, 2012) and Feticci(Il Mulino, 2012; Champion, 2014). Mirko Lino, Ph.D. (2010), University of L’Aquila, is Research Affiliate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Palermo (Italy). He has publishedL’apocalisse postmoderna tra letteratura e cinema: Catastrofi, oggetti, metropoli, corpi (Le Lettere, 2014). Luca Zenobi, Ph.D. (2004), University of Pisa, is Assistant Professor of German at the University of L’Aquila (Italy). Among his most recent publications, La natura e l’arte: Interpretazione del reale ed estetica della liberta nel pensiero di Diderot e Schiller (ETS, 2005), andFaust: Il mito dalla tradizione orale al post-pop (Carocci, 2013).