Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 January 2012
- ISBN 9780199698455
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 222x147x23 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Two diagrams 0
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Short description:
This is the first book-length study in English on Vittorio Sereni (1913-83), a major figure in Italian twentieth-century poetry. It argues that a key innovation of Sereni's poetry is the way in which it reworks the boundaries of poetic space to construct a lyric 'I' radically repositioned in the textual universe with respect to its predecessors.
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Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni is the first book-length study in English on Vittorio Sereni (1913-83), one of the major figures of Italian twentieth-century poetry. It argues that a key innovation of Sereni's poetry is constituted in the way in which, from Frontiera [Frontier] (1941) to Stella variabile [Variable Star] (1981), he reworks the boundaries of poetic space to construct a lyric 'I' radically repositioned in the textual universe with respect to its predecessors: an 'I' that is decentred, in limine, and struggles to subordinate the world to its point of view.
Through an interdisciplinary framework that bridges psychoanalytic, linguistic, and poetic theory, two main dimensions of Sereni's work are revisited and reassessed. The first is the role of liminality, which is presented as a condition of writing and as the mark of a desiring subject whose most desired object is the complete poem or total identity that elude him. The second is Sereni's relationship to the Italian poetic tradition, including Dante, Petrarch, Leopardi, and Montale, who mediate his contact with a textual beyond that slips further and further from view. The study maps, through close-reading, the poet's evolving use of deictic reference (spatio-temporal coordinates, demonstratives, personal pronouns) and the progressive transformation of the poem into a place of frustrated desire that occludes fulfilment. It argues that Sereni's particular brand of experimentalism develops from this point and that he represents a unique moment in the history of twentieth-century Italian poetry in the way in which he adapts pre-existing models of lyric discourse to new modes of expression.
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Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Assembling the Lyric Universe
Carte dell'io: Towards a Definition of Subjectivity in Sereni
Replotting the Textual landscape: The Role of Deixis in Frontiera and Gli strumenti umani
'L'incerto lembo': Liminal Topographies from Montale to Sereni
Poetry as Desire-space: Petrarchan Ascendancies in Gli strumenti umani and Stella variabile
'Memorie triste', 'passi perduti': The Melancholy Journey and the Return to Dante
'Sei pi? in l?': The Destination of Poetry, the Limits of Identity
Appendix: Guide to Index of Archive Catalogue, Archivio Vittorio Sereni, Luino (VA)
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