04059nam 2200433 450 991055688500332120231110214843.09783030920180(electronic bk.)9783030920173(MiAaPQ)EBC6939825(Au-PeEL)EBL6939825(CKB)21420357800041(EXLCZ)992142035780004120221107d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBaudelaire and the making of Italian modernity from the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857-1912 /Alessandro CabiatiCham, Switzerland :Springer,[2022]©20221 online resource (300 pages)Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature Print version: Cabiati, Alessandro Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030920173 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Note on Translations -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introducing Modernity: French, Italian, and Comparative Perspectives -- Baudelaire: The First Poet of Modernity? -- Realism and Decadence: The Modernity of the Scapigliatura -- Futurism for/against the Scapigliatura -- References -- Chapter 2: Unpoetic Poetry and the Rise of Modernity: Science and Medicine in the Scapigliatura -- Stylistic Irregularity and Scientific Polemic in Arrigo Boito's Il libro dei versi -- Oxymora and Juxtapositions in Boito's Realism -- The Aesthetics of Baudelaire's Modern Beauty and Boito's Quasimodos -- Decadence, Progress, and the Irregular Forms of Modernity -- The Poet Against the Physician: 'Lezione d'anatomia' -- A Poetry of (Organic) Matter and Spirit: Emilio Praga -- Anatomical Examination and Idealistic Representation -- 'Suicidio': Between Scientific Observation and Artistic Celebration -- Against Medicine, Against Religion: 'A un feto' -- References -- Chapter 3: Allegory and Modernity in the Scapigliatura -- An Allegory of Excess: Boito's Re Orso -- The Allegorical Menagerie of 'Antiche storie' -- Gluttony, Putrefaction, and the Worm -- A Modern Fairy Tale for Monomaniacs: Apparitions or Hallucinations? -- Sepulchral Allegories and Existential Anguish in the Poetry of Giovanni Camerana -- From Allegorical Figures to Allegorical Landscapes -- The Beauty of the Grave -- References -- Chapter 4: Sensual Sacredness and Sacred Sensuality: Love, Sex, and Religion in the Scapigliatura -- Boito: Sadistic Serpents and Angelic Prostitutes -- Praga: Spiritual Intercourse and Carnal Worship -- Camerana: The Sensuality and Sexuality of the Virgin Mary -- References -- Chapter 5: Writing Analogy, Writing Modernity: The Scapigliatura and Baudelaire's Correspondances.Synaesthesia and Intoxicating Visions: Praga's Analogical Correspondences -- Poetry, Music as Sensory Union: Boito's Derangement of the Senses -- Camerana and the Analogical Features of the Natural Landscape -- References -- Chapter 6: From Organic to Inorganic Matter, From Spirit to Speed: Early Futurist Poetry and the Scapigliatura's Legacy -- Making the 'Ugly' in Literature -- (Un)Poetic Morgues, Dissected Bodies, Necrophilia -- Urban Hymns: Orchestras of Hammers and Odes to the Lime -- The Lyre Is the Machine: The Inorganic Poetry of the 'Mechanical Man' -- References -- Chapter 7: Concluding Modernity: Writing Analogy, Writing Avant-Garde -- References -- Index.Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature Futurism (Art)Futurism (Art)841.8Cabiati Alessandro1219298MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910556885003321Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity2819520UNINA