UID:
almahu_9948367973102882
Format:
XI, 276 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2020.
ISBN:
9783030460914
Series Statement:
Italian and Italian American Studies
Content:
Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera: Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry reveals their presence and sheds light on their role in shaping that great poetic tradition. This is the first work in English to analyze the influence of opera on modern Italian poetry, uncovering a fundamental but neglected relationship between the two art forms. A group of Italian poets, from Gabriele D'Annunzio to Giorgio Caproni, by way of Umberto Saba and Eugenio Montale, made opera a cornerstone of their artistic craft. More than an occasional stylistic influence, opera is rather analyzed as a fundamental facet of these poets' intellectual quest to overcome the expressive limitations of lyrical poetry. This book reframes modern Italian poetry in a truly interdisciplinary perspective, broadening our understanding of its prominence within the humanities, in the twentieth century and beyond.
Note:
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: From Bayreuth to Fiume: D'Annunzio, Wagner and the Death of Italian Opera -- Chapter 3: Umberto Saba and the Verdian Sound of Italy -- Chapter 4: More Than Words: Ossi di seppia, Opera, and the Miracle of Counter-Eloquence. Chapter 5: Heart of Darkness: Saba's Operatic Eroticism -- Chapter 6: Strange Mercy: Montale, Opera, and the Death of Tragedy -- Chapter 7: Poetry and the Beast: Giorgio Caproni's Simulations of Opera -- Chapter 8: Conclusions .
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030460907
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030460921
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030460938
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-46091-4
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46091-4
