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An incisive, unified account of modern poetry in the Western
tradition, arguing that the emergence of the lyric as a dominant
verse style is emblematic of the age of the individual. Between the
end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth,
poetry in the West was transformed. The now-common idea that poetry
mostly corresponds with the lyric in the modern sense-a genre in
which a first-person speaker talks self-referentially-was foreign
to ancient, medieval, and Renaissance poetics. Yet in a relatively
short time, age-old habits gave way. Poets acquired unprecedented
freedom to write obscurely about private experiences, break rules
of meter and syntax, use new vocabulary, and entangle first-person
speakers with their own real-life identities. Poetry thus became
the most subjective genre of modern literature. On Modern Poetry
reconstructs this metamorphosis, combining theoretical reflections
with literary history and close readings of poets from Giacomo
Leopardi to Louise Gluck. Guido Mazzoni shows that the evolution of
modern poetry involved significant changes in the way poetry was
perceived, encouraged the construction of first-person poetic
personas, and dramatically altered verse style. He interprets these
developments as symptoms of profound historical and cultural shifts
in the modern period: the crisis of tradition, the rise of
individualism, the privileging of self-expression and its
paradoxes. Mazzoni also reflects on the place of poetry in mass
culture today, when its role has been largely assumed by popular
music. The result is a rich history of literary modernity and a
bold new account of poetry's transformations across centuries and
national traditions.
The novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to
represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature
sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy.
Indebted to Lukacs and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido
Mazzoni's Theory of the Novel breaks new ground, building a
historical understanding of how the novel became the modern book of
life: one of the best representations of our experience of the
world. The genre arose during a long metamorphosis of narrative
forms that took place between 1550 and 1800. By the nineteenth
century it had come to encompass a corpus of texts distinguished by
their freedom from traditional formal boundaries and by the
particularity of their narratives. Mazzoni explains that modern
novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever, by narrators
who exist-like us-as contingent beings within time and space. They
therefore present an interpretation, not a copy, of the world.
Novels grant new importance to the stories of ordinary men and
women and allow readers to step into other lives and other versions
of truth. As Theory of the Novel makes clear, this art form
narrates an epoch and a society in which individual experiences do
not converge but proliferate, in which the common world has
fragmented into a plurality of small, local worlds, each absolute
in its particularity.
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artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
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pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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++++ In Biblioteca: Appunti 2 Guido Mazzoni N. Zanichelli, 1886
Literary Criticism; European; Italian; Italian poetry; Literary
Criticism / European / Italian; Poetry / Continental European
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