Italian Lyric Poetry

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. CONTENTS: Introduction: Why Mourning in Poetry? ADELE BARDAZZI, FRANCESCO GIUSTI, EMANUELA TANDELLO 1. The Loss of Poetry: Leopardi’s ‘Coro di morti’ EMANUELA TANDELLO 2. Carlotta’s Ghost FABIO CAMILLETTI 3. Mourning Over Her Image: The Re-enactment of Lyric Gestures in Giorgio Caproni’s ‘Versi livornesi’ FRANCESCO GIUSTI 4. Giorgio Bassani, The Poet-Ghost, and the Memorial Duty of the Survivor MARTINA PIPERNO 5. The Space of Mourning: Elettra’s mise en abyme MARZIA D’AMICO 6. Mourning in Translation: The Sardinian Poetry of Antonella Anedda ADELE BARDAZZI 7. Madre d’inverno by Vivian Lamarque VILMA DE GASPERIN More info can be found at this link: http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ip-54

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