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Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry: Eros, Tragedy, and National Identity

Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry: Eros, Tragedy, and National Identity

Acetoso, Mattia

Hardcover

Series: Italian and Italian American Studies

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismItalian History

ISBN10: 3030460908
ISBN13: 9783030460907
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 25 2020
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera. Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry reveals their presence and sheds light on their role in shaping that great poetic tradition. This is the first work in English to analyze the influence of opera on modern Italian poetry, uncovering a fundamental but neglected relationship between the two art forms. A group of Italian poets, from Gabriele D'Annunzio to Giorgio Caproni, by way of Umberto Saba and Eugenio Montale, made opera a cornerstone of their artistic craft. More than an occasional stylistic influence, opera is rather analyzed as a fundamental facet of these poets' intellectual quest to overcome the expressive limitations of lyrical poetry. This book reframes modern Italian poetry in a truly interdisciplinary perspective, broadening our understanding of its prominence within the humanities, in the twentieth century and beyond.

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