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Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni (Hardcover, New)
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Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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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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