Format:
1 online resource (300 pages)
ISBN:
9783030920180
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Note on Translations -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introducing Modernity: French, Italian, and Comparative Perspectives -- Baudelaire: The First Poet of Modernity? -- Realism and Decadence: The Modernity of the Scapigliatura -- Futurism for/against the Scapigliatura -- References -- Chapter 2: Unpoetic Poetry and the Rise of Modernity: Science and Medicine in the Scapigliatura -- Stylistic Irregularity and Scientific Polemic in Arrigo Boito's Il libro dei versi -- Oxymora and Juxtapositions in Boito's Realism -- The Aesthetics of Baudelaire's Modern Beauty and Boito's Quasimodos -- Decadence, Progress, and the Irregular Forms of Modernity -- The Poet Against the Physician: 'Lezione d'anatomia' -- A Poetry of (Organic) Matter and Spirit: Emilio Praga -- Anatomical Examination and Idealistic Representation -- 'Suicidio': Between Scientific Observation and Artistic Celebration -- Against Medicine, Against Religion: 'A un feto' -- References -- Chapter 3: Allegory and Modernity in the Scapigliatura -- An Allegory of Excess: Boito's Re Orso -- The Allegorical Menagerie of 'Antiche storie' -- Gluttony, Putrefaction, and the Worm -- A Modern Fairy Tale for Monomaniacs: Apparitions or Hallucinations? -- Sepulchral Allegories and Existential Anguish in the Poetry of Giovanni Camerana -- From Allegorical Figures to Allegorical Landscapes -- The Beauty of the Grave -- References -- Chapter 4: Sensual Sacredness and Sacred Sensuality: Love, Sex, and Religion in the Scapigliatura -- Boito: Sadistic Serpents and Angelic Prostitutes -- Praga: Spiritual Intercourse and Carnal Worship -- Camerana: The Sensuality and Sexuality of the Virgin Mary -- References -- Chapter 5: Writing Analogy, Writing Modernity: The Scapigliatura and Baudelaire's Correspondances.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030920173
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030920173
Language:
English
Keywords:
Baudelaire, Charles 1821-1867
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Rezeption
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Italienisch
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Lyrik
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Geschichte 1857-1912
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