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Autore |
Rosengarten Frank <1927-> |
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Titolo |
Giacomo Leopardi's search for a common life through poetry [[electronic resource] ] : a different nobility, a different love / / Frank Rosengarten |
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Madison, NJ, : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
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Lanham, MD, : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-67004-5 |
9786613646972 |
1-61147-506-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Italian poetry - 19th century - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Sources and Translations; Introduction; Part One: Nobility-A Family Legacy and a Lingering Ideal; 1 Family Connections; 2 Poetry and the Heroic; 3 A Different Nobility; Part Two: Leopardi in Love; 4 The Languages of Love and Misogyny; 5 A Loving Partnership and Consalvo; 6 A Different Love; Part Three: Leopardi as a Poet of the Risorgimento; 7 The Poetry and Rhetoric of Liberal Patriotism; 8 Monaldo and Giacomo Leopardi; 9 Unpleasant, Rancorous Leopardi; 10 Leopardi in a Twentieth-Century Political Context; Part Four: Leopardi as Poet-Philosopher |
11 Nihilism, Death, and the Human Condition12 Nietzsche, Lucretius, and Leopardi; 13 Leopardi between Supernaturalism and Materialism; 14 How Schopenhauer Illuminates Leopardi; Part Five: Humanism in Life and Letters; 15 Friendship and Classical Studies; 16 Women in Leopardi's Intellectual and Sentimental Life; 17 Humanism and Society; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The major themes and human concerns expressed in Leopardi's writings are related to his life experiences and to the historical period in which he lived. Of central interest are the book's discussions of nobility and love as these two themes evolve and change as Leopardi |
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