Ordinary Horror: The Aesthetics of Deformation with Andrea Capra

<p>Andrea Capra holds a Ph.D. in Italian from Stanford University and was a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University’s Society of Fellows before joining NYU. He is a literary scholar whose work focuses on the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.Capra is the author of Ordinary Horror: The Aesthetics of Deformation from Leopardi to Ferrante (Stanford University Press). This book studies how “ordinary horror” — the horror that haunts our world and that we may encounter firsthand — manifests in our lives and literature, unpacking its significance for our time. Through this lens, Capra shows the centrality of horror in the work of a host of canonical Italian authors, none of whom are associated with the horror genre.Book link: https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/ordinary-horrorPersonal site: https://andreacapra.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community:The Hermitage: https://thehermitage.school/Hermitix Twitter - /hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon : www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLKEthereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74</p><p><br></p>