Pasolini After Dante: The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation

ISBN-13: 9781909662933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 188 str.

Emanuela Patti

Opis

What role did Dante play in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)? His unfinished and fragmented imitation of the Comedia, La Divina Mimesis, is only one outward sign of what was a sustained dialogue with Dante on representation begun in the early 1950s. During this period, the philologists Gianfranco Contini (1912-1990) and Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) played a crucial role in Pasolini s re-thinking of represented reality, suggesting Dante as the best literary, authorial and political model for a generation of postwar Italian writers. This emerged first as Dantean realism in Pasolini s prose and poetry, after Contini s interpretation of Dante and of his plurilingualism, and then as figural realism in his cinema, after Auerbach s concepts of Dante s figura and mingling of styles . Following the evolution of Pasolini s mimetic ideal from these formative influences through to La Divina Mimesis, Emanuela Patti explores Pasolini s politics of representation in relation to the national-popular, the questione della lingua and the Italian post-war debates on neorealism, while also providing a new interpretation of some of his major literary and cinematic works."

Spis treści

1 Setting the Scene: Debates and Contexts  2 Dante, Poeta Della Realtà  3 Representing the Reality of the ‘Other’: Objectivity and Plurilingualism from Poesia dialettale del Novecento to Ragazzi di vita  4 Officina and ‘La Grande Ideologia del Reale’: Dante, Contini, Gramsci, and A uerbach for a Theory of Experimental Literature  5 A uerbach’s Figural Realism in Pasolini’s ‘National-popular’ Cinema and Beyond  6 La Divina Mimesis, or the Death of Dantean Realism 

O autorze

Emanuela Patti is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.