Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde

ISBN-13: 9781907975783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 252 str.

Paolo Chirumbolo; John Picchione

Opis

Poet, novelist, theorist, playwright, translator, politician, and teacher, Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010) is one of the most original and influential Italian intellectuals of the second post-war period. An ardent and unremitting historical materialist, he investigated the links between language and ideology, literature and the other arts, together with their functions within the logic of late capitalism. The extraordinary range of his creative work persistently defies conventional aesthetic notions.
With their variety of topics and critical perspectives, the essays assembled in this volume explore both the relevance of his theoretical postures and the ideological and formal fabric of his literary production. They highlight his subversive objectives, the complexity of the language, the astonishing linguistic ingenuity, metaliterary significance, whimsical disposition, and provocative social critique. Testimonials by Sanguineti's colleagues and students, presented here in English translation, offer a portrait of the man, his temperament and his distinctiveness, and provide a personal view of the life and work of a brilliant intellectual.

Spis treści

Introduction: Prelude for an Engaging Intellectual Critical Essays 1.1. Between Words and Things: Intellectuals, Avant-garde, and Social Class in Edoardo Sanguineti 1.2. Edoardo Sanguineti's Critical Orientation on Poetry 1.3. Edoardo Sanguineti's New Dante 1.4. Edoardo Sanguineti's Early Poetry: Between Language and Ideology 1.5. The Midlife Poetry of Edoardo Sanguineti 1.6. The Poetry of Unease: Edoardo Sanguineti's Later Poetry 1.7. The man who needs to leave': A Reading of Edoardo Sanguineti's Final Poetry Collection 1.8. How Experimental Are Edoardo Sanguineti's Narrative Devices? 1.9. In the Palus Putredinis of Italy's Bourgeois Domesticity: Edoardo Sanguineti's Capriccio italiano from Textual Representation to Critical Practice 1.1. Edoardo Sanguineti: A Unique Translator 1.11. The Linguistic Gesture: Edoardo Sanguineti's Theatre 1.12. Edoardo Sanguineti: A Profile of the Poet as a Cinephile 1.13. Edoardo Sanguineti and the Visual Arts: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue Testimonials 2.1. My Relationship with Edoardo Sanguineti 2.2. Postcard 2.3. Sanguineti, Founder and Editor of Bollettario 2.4. A Brief Introductory Guide to Sanguineti's Poetry 2.5. A Memory 2.6. Five (or Six) Snapshots 2.7. My Ten Most Important Debts 2.8. My Encounters with the Maestro 2.9. Sanguineti's Ars Maieutica 2.1. What would I be without ES?

O autorze

John Picchione