La poetica del 'banale': Uno studio della 'perdita di elevazione' nelle "Myricae" di Giovanni Pascoli.
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Title
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La poetica del 'banale': Uno studio della 'perdita di elevazione' nelle "Myricae" di Giovanni Pascoli.
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Identifier
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AAI9946157
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identifier
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9946157
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Creator
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Del Re, Gabriele.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Robert Dombroski
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Date
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1999
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Language
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Italian
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Literature, Romance
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Abstract
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Since its appearance in 1894 Pascoli's Myricae has been subjected to contradicting criticism---on one side there have been those who have censured the apparent puerility of the lyrics it contained, considering them the expression of an unaccomplished poetical personality, on the other there have been those who have extolled those very lyrics on account of their intense sentimental effect upon the reader---yet, its influence on Italian literature, in the course of the 20th century, has been remarkable, and it has become a classic; this situation has led many critics to look for its "hidden qualities" in order to find an aesthetic "justification" of its success, and to interpret positively the aesthetic "perplexity" Benedetto Croce, the influential philosopher, had proposed, at the beginning of this century, as the main, and negative effect it induced by its assumed "defects".;Our thesis is that the Poet produced a kind of poetry that mirrored, and represented, through the intentional variations of style, the paradigm of life, as the poet himself saw it; we maintain that the event of "loss", the reality of irrecoverable absence he experienced in life are posited in his poetry through the impossibility his verse shows to reach the ideal Crocean "sublimation" poetry should accomplish: Pascoli's poetry tends to achieve the result of suggesting an existential dimension where "elevation" is impossible because life in itself is characterized by the mark of loss, of bereavement; that result is attained through a "banalization" of the poetic texture by means of a disruption of its tendency to a "sublimating" universalization. It is in this sense that we interpret the fragmentary, or fragmented form of Pascoli's Myricae, its apparent commonplaces, its repetitiveness, its inexplicable "mistakes" in composition; those lyrics, as a matter of fact, are not the result of a lack of "poetics", on the contrary, they are the product of an extremely refined workmanship, based on the "aesthetic of loss" the Poet applies to his verse, and to his versification, and not on the "loss of aesthetics" the Poet became a victim of, as many critics, after Benedetto Croce, have maintained.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
