Eugenio Montale a poetics of mourning / Adele Bardazzi.
| Author/creator | Bardazzi, Adele, 1991- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2023] |
| Description | xi, 245 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Self as 'Ombra': Ossi di seppia -- Addressing Shades: Esterina, Arletta, and Mosca -- The Dialogue with the Dead: Elegy and 'Demi-deuil' -- Shades and the Afterlife: Montale's Poetic Eschatology |
| Abstract | "This book is as much about the living as it is about the dead. It investigates how the dead dwell in the world of the living and how that continuing relationship has inspired particular forms of poetic writing. It analyses how poetry assumes the key responsibility of voicing grief and thus creates a unique space in which the dead's presence is sustained, in a constant state of potential transformation and renewal. This monograph explores this topic with reference to one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, Eugenio Montale (1896-1981), and his principal collections, from Ossi di seppia (Cuttlefish Bones) (1925) to Quaderno di quattro anni (Notebook of Four Years) (1977). These primary texts are enhanced by a critical framework that brings three different areas of enquiry into dialogue: scholarship on mourning, theories of the lyric, and feminist approaches. Questions explored include the following: How does mourning become a crucial creative and ethical force in literature? What kind of poetry draws on, and may even require, the presence of an absent female lyric addressee? How does this affect the nature of poetic discourses on mourning and lyric poetry more broadly? This book offers the first comprehensive study of Montale's poetics of mourning accessible to both scholars in Italian Studies and scholars interested, more broadly, in modern poetry, discourses of mourning, and lyric theory"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022032203 |
| ISBN | 9781800792159 (softcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |