A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry

A Gaping Wound
Mourning in Italian Poetry

Edited by Adele Bardazzi, Francesco Giusti, and Emanuela Tandello

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Italian Perspectives 54

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20 October 2022 • 198pp

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Poetry has always maintained a particular relationship with mourning and its rituals, but what is it that lyric discourse has to offer in coping with death, grief, and bereavement? On the other hand, how does mourning become a central creative force in lyric poetry? How does this affect the nature of its discourse and the desires it performs? Focusing on poems by Giacomo Leopardi, Guido Gozzano, Giorgio Caproni, Giorgio Bassani, Amelia Rosselli, Antonella Anedda, and Vivian Lamarque, the essays collected in this volume explore how poetry dwells on the boundaries between high lyric and vernacular forms, the personal and the political, the local and the national, the individual and the collective, one’s own story and public history, the masculine and the feminine, individual expression and shared language. The Italian poetic tradition finds two crucial milestones in two collections of poems devoted to the lost beloved, Dante’s Vita Nova and Petrarch’s Canzoniere, and its modern and contemporary ramifications have much to offer for reflection on the ethics and poetics of mourning.

Adele Bardazzi is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Francesco Giusti is Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Italian at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Emanuela Tandello is Emeritus Student of Christ Church, Oxford.

See news item: Gaping (25 February 2021)

Contents:

1	Introduction: Why Mourning in Poetry? Adele Bardazzi, Francesco Giusti, Emanuela Tandello	Cite
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2	The Loss of Poetry: Leopardi’s ‘Coro di morti’ Emanuela Tandello	Cite
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3	Carlotta’s Ghost Fabio A. Camilletti	Cite
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4	Mourning Over Her Image: The Re-enactment of Lyric Gestures in Giorgio Caproni’s ‘Versi livornesi’ Francesco Giusti	Cite
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5	Giorgio Bassani, the Poet-Ghost, and the Memorial Duty of the Survivor Martina Piperno	Cite
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6	The Space of Mourning: Elettra’s mise en abyme Marzia D’Amico	Cite
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7	Mourning in Translation: The Sardinian Poetry of Antonella Anedda Adele Bardazzi	Cite
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8	Mourning and Lyric Address in Vivian Lamarque’s Madre d’inverno Vilma De Gasperin	Cite
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Bardazzi, Adele, Francesco Giusti, and Emanuela Tandello (eds), A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry, Italian Perspectives, 54 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022)

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A Gaping WoundMourning in Italian Poetry

Edited by Adele Bardazzi, Francesco Giusti, and Emanuela Tandello

A Gaping Wound
Mourning in Italian Poetry