Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning

ISBN-13: 9781800792159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Adele Bardazzi

Opis

This book offers the first comprehensive study of Italian poet Eugenio Montale's poetics of mourning. His principal collections are read through a critical framework using scholarship on mourning, lyric theory and feminist approaches.

Recenzje

«In a series of carefully wrought readings of poems in which Montale writes of his lost loves, death, mourning, and his own quite particular vision of the afterlife, Adele Bardazzi both challenges traditional interpretations of Montalian poetic beloveds and offers her own convincing overview of the eschatological dimension of one of the twentieth century's most essential bodies of verse. A surprisingly fresh take on a much-studied poet, this fine book gives new life to the realm of death in which Montale's poetry of mourning is so tenaciously rooted.» (Rebecca West, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Italian, University of Chicago)

Spis treści

Contents: The Self as «Ombra» - Addressing Shades: Esterina, Arletta, and Mosca - The Dialogue with the Dead: Elegy and «Demi-Deuil» - Shades and the Afterlife: Montale's Poetic Eschatology.

O autorze

Adele Bardazzi is Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow in Italian at Trinity College, Dublin as well as Honorary Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry, with a series of cross-disciplinary, comparative, and gender-orientated foci. In particular, her research interests are lyric poetry (with an emphasis on elegy), discourse on mourning and loss, issues of translation and self-translation, and the cross-fertilization between the verbal and the visual.