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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - A Self-Perpetuating Myth -- 1 Caravaggio in Context -- The socio-historical context -- How does Caravaggio fit in this context? Key events in Merisi's early life -- Rome and other key events in Caravaggio's life -- Caravaggio's fortune -- 2 Michelangelo Merisi's Lives: The 'Painter as Character' Genre -- Caravaggio pittore maledetto versus Caravaggio the hero of the poor -- The author/painter as character genre -- Michelangelo Merisi and his lives: a case study -- 3 Caravaggio, Crime Fiction, and the Noir -- Mean Streets: Scorsese and Caravaggio -- Margaret Truman: Murder at the National Gallery -- Neil Griffiths: Saving Caravaggio -- Forgery and revenge: Fabio Baldassarri's Il mistero del Caravaggio and Noel Charney's The Art Thief -- When truth is stranger than fiction: Jonathan Harr's The Lost Painting -- Gilda Piersanti's Jaune Caravage -- 4 Caravaggio and Homoerotic Concerns -- Dominique Fernandez's Dans la main de l'ange -- Thom Gunn -- Caravaggio and Derek Jarman -- Samuel M. Steward's The Caravaggio Shawl -- 5 Deleuzian Folds: Michael Ondaatje's and Anthony Minghella's Caravaggio -- David Caravaggio: an artist in disguise -- Key pictorial intertextual references -- Conclusion: Caravaggio and the Neo-Baroque - Some Final Considerations -- Bibliography -- Index

With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions - and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary - the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe, which together suggest emerging patterns of identification within contemporary Europe - patterns which may not necessarily amount to a European 'identity', but rather to a European 'mode' of identification. The chronological structure of the volume demonstrates the increasingly problematic nature of national collective memories and past imaginaries in light of emergent marginal voices and images, and suggests that it is both from beyond and within the national paradigm that new challenges are now reshaping the cultural imaginary of European communities. Focusing on cultural images within film, literature, national narratives and myths, museum exhibitions and architecture, this volume is of interest to a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, and presents an interdisciplinary approach to questions of cultural memory and identity formation.