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This book lays more emphasis on orality as source, as process or
performance, as outcome. It looks at the primacy of the spoken
language that seems to be the main common feature to these two
phenomena of Italian theatrical culture.
Galvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism
for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was
a work of aesthetic theory - Critique of Taste. Della Volpe,
proponent of a robust materialism in all his writings, was
concerned to rehabilitate the inherently rationally and
intellectual nature of art. Opposing both the sociological
reductionism of Plekhanov or Lukacs, and the formalist
irrationalism of Croce or New Criticism, Della Volpe's aim was to
demonstrate that conceptual meaning is always inseparable from
aesthetic effect. Whether he is discussing Pindar or Gongora,
Cleanth Brooks or Roland Barthes, Goethe or Mallarme, Della Volpe
is always challenging, always illuminating. Critique of Taste
represents one of the major crossroads of twentieth-century
aesthetics.
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