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Pasolini after Dante - The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation (Paperback)
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Pasolini after Dante - The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation (Paperback)
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What role did Dante play in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini
(1922-1975)? His unfinished and fragmented imitation of the
Comedia, La Divina Mimesis, is only one outward sign of what was a
sustained dialogue with Dante on representation begun in the early
1950s. During this period, the philologists Gianfranco Contini
(1912-1990) and Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) played a crucial role in
Pasolini's re-thinking of 'represented reality', suggesting Dante
as the best literary, authorial and political model for a
generation of postwar Italian writers. This emerged first as
'Dantean realism' in Pasolini's prose and poetry, after Contini's
interpretation of Dante and of his plurilingualism, and then as
'figural realism' in his cinema, after Auerbach's concepts of
Dante's figura and 'mingling of styles'. Following the evolution of
Pasolini's mimetic ideal from these formative influences through to
La Divina Mimesis, Emanuela Patti explores Pasolini's politics of
representation in relation to the 'national-popular', the
'questione della lingua' and the Italian post-war debates on
neorealism, while also providing a new interpretation of some of
his major literary and cinematic works.
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