Baudelaire and the making of Italian modernity : from the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857-1912 / / Alessandro Cabiati

• Autore: Cabiati Alessandro
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Disciplina: 841.8
• Soggetto topico: Futurism (Art)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity
• ISBN: 9783030920180; 9783030920173
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910556885003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature