Description
Poetry has always maintained a particular relationship with mourning and its rituals, but what is it that lyric discourse has to offer in coping with death, grief, and bereavement? On the other hand, how does mourning become a central creative force in lyric poetry? How does this affect the nature of its discourse and the desires it performs? Focusing on poems by Giacomo Leopardi, Guido Gozzano, Giorgio Caproni, Giorgio Bassani, Amelia Rosselli, Antonella Anedda, and Vivian Lamarque, the essays collected in this volume explore how poetry dwells on the boundaries between high lyric and vernacular forms, the personal and the political, the local and the national, the individual and the collective, one's own story and public history, the masculine and the feminine, individual expression and shared language. The Italian poetic tradition finds two crucial milestones in two collections of poems devoted to the lost beloved, Dante's Vita Nova and Petrarch's Canzoniere, and its modern and contemporary ramifications have much to offer for reflection on the ethics and poetics of mourning.
Author: Adele Bardazzi
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 09/30/2022
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781839540493
ISBN10: 1839540494
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | Italian
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Social Science | Death & Dying
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