Angelo Monaco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angelo Monaco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angelo |
| FAMILY NAME | Monaco |
| SIGNATURE | MONACO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7604-1314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Memory, Akan cosmology, and elementality in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
This article examines the convergence of cultural memory, elemental ecocriticism, and Akan cosmology in Yaa Gyasi’s (2016) Homegoing, arguing that natural elements – particularly fire and water – function as active agents of memory, history, and spiritual continuity. Drawing on memory studies and elemental ecocriticism, the article explores how Gyasi’s debut novel conceptualizes memory as transgenerational, relational, and mediated through both h…
She’s not the full shilling
Throughout his œuvre, William Trevor frequently explores the disorders of the human mind, with his Irish writings often depicting deviance, mental illness, and madness as responses to suffering and loss. In Reading Turgenev (1991), this focus is embodied in Mary Louise Dallon’s presumed madness, which shapes both the novella’s themes and its narrative structure. Partly set in 1950s Ireland – a period marked by peak asylum confinement – the novell…
Polyphony, sonic texture and acoustic ecology in Cynan Jones’s Stillicide
With Stillicide (2019), Cynan Jones moves away from the rural world of his previous novels to tackle the interaction between the human and the nonhuman in an unnamed city affected by climate change and riven by social unrest. The novel pivots around a severe drought that has exacerbated the inhabitants of the city as a way to concentrate on the sensory experience offered by the interface of human and nonhuman, especially celebrating the primacy o…
Generic Hybridity, Narrative Polyphony and Uncanny Slums in Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple (2020) centres on the mysterious disappearance of children from the basti of an Indian shantytown, thus immersing the reader into the climate of injustice, grievability and vulnerability of contemporary India. Anappara’s debut novel may be described as a coming-of-age narrative with elements of fantasy and crime fiction. It uses various focal perspectives, relying particularly on the ingenuous gazes and…
Georgic Echoes in 'The Long Dry' and 'The Dig' by Cynan Jones
From his debut novel, The Long Dry (2006), to his most recent, Stillicide (2019), the non-human has played a prominent role in Cynan Jones’ fiction. Of Jones’ texts, The Long Dry and The Dig (2014) specifically engage with cultivation, farming, and raising livestock in a Welsh rustic setting. Both novels present a rural world that resists idealised forms of representing nature as some kind of idyll, thus calling into question the separation betwe…
Narrative Form and Palimpsestic Memory in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
This essay explores Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift (2019) through the lens of ‘palimpsestic memory’, contending that the novel articulates an interconnectedness between memory and migration. Firstly, I will investigate how the tension between aeonic temporality and some paratextual elements that attempt to install order and direct the reader’s orientation mimic and resonate with the intricate motif of the palimpsest. Then, I will ill…
La luce e l'inchiostro
Recensione a: Biancamaria Rizzardi e Giovanni Bassi (a cura di). 2020. La luce e l’inchiostro. Scritture e fotografie in dialogo. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 172 pp., € 18,00, ISBN 978-88-4675-749-4
Between Hagiography and Insanity
In his more than a half-century long career as a fiction writer, William Trevor has constantly addressed political violence against the backdrop of the ongoing tensions between Ireland and England. Historical frictions and tragic situations loom large in his novels and short stories, albeit the private domain is generally paramount, a stance that the Irish
Stanze dipinte. L’ Inamoramento de Orlando come allegoria dell’Amicizia nella Sala del bacio nel Palazzo del Giardino a Parma
The essay analyses the iconography of the sixteenth-century frescoes by the Mannerist painter Bertoja in the ‘Sala del bacio’ of the ‘Palazzo del Giardino’, Parma. The series is interpreted as an allegory on the humanist theme of ‘Friendship’, seen as a Boiardan, epic, and aristocratic topic by members of the so-called ‘Republic of Letters’, of which Ottavio Farnese, patron of the frescoes, was a prominent member. The frescoes provide evidence of…
The New Art of the Fifteenth Century
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The New Art of the Fifteenth Century
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Between Hagiography and Insanity
In his more than a half-century long career as a fiction writer, William Trevor has constantly addressed political violence against the backdrop of the ongoing tensions between Ireland and England. Historical frictions and tragic situations loom large in his novels and short stories, albeit the private domain is generally paramount, a stance that the Irish
Stanze dipinte. L’ Inamoramento de Orlando come allegoria dell’Amicizia nella Sala del bacio nel Palazzo del Giardino a Parma
The essay analyses the iconography of the sixteenth-century frescoes by the Mannerist painter Bertoja in the ‘Sala del bacio’ of the ‘Palazzo del Giardino’, Parma. The series is interpreted as an allegory on the humanist theme of ‘Friendship’, seen as a Boiardan, epic, and aristocratic topic by members of the so-called ‘Republic of Letters’, of which Ottavio Farnese, patron of the frescoes, was a prominent member. The frescoes provide evidence of…
Narrative Form and Palimpsestic Memory in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
This essay explores Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift (2019) through the lens of ‘palimpsestic memory’, contending that the novel articulates an interconnectedness between memory and migration. Firstly, I will investigate how the tension between aeonic temporality and some paratextual elements that attempt to install order and direct the reader’s orientation mimic and resonate with the intricate motif of the palimpsest. Then, I will ill…
La luce e l'inchiostro
Recensione a: Biancamaria Rizzardi e Giovanni Bassi (a cura di). 2020. La luce e l’inchiostro. Scritture e fotografie in dialogo. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 172 pp., € 18,00, ISBN 978-88-4675-749-4
Georgic Echoes in 'The Long Dry' and 'The Dig' by Cynan Jones
From his debut novel, The Long Dry (2006), to his most recent, Stillicide (2019), the non-human has played a prominent role in Cynan Jones’ fiction. Of Jones’ texts, The Long Dry and The Dig (2014) specifically engage with cultivation, farming, and raising livestock in a Welsh rustic setting. Both novels present a rural world that resists idealised forms of representing nature as some kind of idyll, thus calling into question the separation betwe…
Generic Hybridity, Narrative Polyphony and Uncanny Slums in Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple (2020) centres on the mysterious disappearance of children from the basti of an Indian shantytown, thus immersing the reader into the climate of injustice, grievability and vulnerability of contemporary India. Anappara’s debut novel may be described as a coming-of-age narrative with elements of fantasy and crime fiction. It uses various focal perspectives, relying particularly on the ingenuous gazes and…
Polyphony, sonic texture and acoustic ecology in Cynan Jones’s Stillicide
With Stillicide (2019), Cynan Jones moves away from the rural world of his previous novels to tackle the interaction between the human and the nonhuman in an unnamed city affected by climate change and riven by social unrest. The novel pivots around a severe drought that has exacerbated the inhabitants of the city as a way to concentrate on the sensory experience offered by the interface of human and nonhuman, especially celebrating the primacy o…
She’s not the full shilling
Throughout his œuvre, William Trevor frequently explores the disorders of the human mind, with his Irish writings often depicting deviance, mental illness, and madness as responses to suffering and loss. In Reading Turgenev (1991), this focus is embodied in Mary Louise Dallon’s presumed madness, which shapes both the novella’s themes and its narrative structure. Partly set in 1950s Ireland – a period marked by peak asylum confinement – the novell…
Memory, Akan cosmology, and elementality in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
This article examines the convergence of cultural memory, elemental ecocriticism, and Akan cosmology in Yaa Gyasi’s (2016) Homegoing, arguing that natural elements – particularly fire and water – function as active agents of memory, history, and spiritual continuity. Drawing on memory studies and elemental ecocriticism, the article explores how Gyasi’s debut novel conceptualizes memory as transgenerational, relational, and mediated through both h…
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