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Heavy weather and a slant of light: Modernity, mythos, and the metaphysical functions of poetry from Emily Dickinson to Eugenio Montale.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Heavy weather and a slant of light: Modernity, mythos, and the metaphysical functions of poetry from Emily Dickinson to Eugenio Montale./
Author:	Barca, Lisa A.
Description:	240 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-07A(E).
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3499706
ISBN:	9781267246837

Heavy weather and a slant of light: Modernity, mythos, and the metaphysical functions of poetry from Emily Dickinson to Eugenio Montale.
Barca, Lisa A.

Heavy weather and a slant of light: Modernity, mythos, and the metaphysical functions of poetry from Emily Dickinson to Eugenio Montale. - 240 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2012.

This project investigates metaphysical aspects of poetic language in nineteenth and twentieth-century lyric poetry, focusing on four authors: Eugenio Montale (Italian, 1896--1981); Rainer Maria Rilke (Bohemian-Austrian, 1875--1926); Giovanni Pascoli (Italian, 1855--1912); and Emily Dickinson (American, 1830--1886). Through a methodology of close reading within a philosophical framework, the study analyzes how this poetry navigates the divide between immanence (the tangible world of sense experience) and transcendence (in the etymological sense of 'to climb over or beyond,' that is, to approach the spiritual 'beyond' toward which humans of all eras have yearned). The impetus toward transcendence, at issue throughout literary history, is thrown into re-dimensioned crisis between the Enlightenment and WW II, as scientific revolutions and global catastrophes eclipse past religious and moral certitudes. As one moves into the twentieth century, from Pascoli's 'cosmic' poetry (which exemplifies the sense of an unfathomably immense universe qualified by Arthur Schopenhauer as the strongest feeling of the sublime) through the modernism of Rilke's poetry of the 1920's and Montale's first three books, one discovers a move toward the possibility of a transcendence compatible with secular modernity. The later poetry creates a mythos of religious meaning that locates the sacred in the immanent, engaging a vocabulary of religious images whose authority has been attenuated but which have not been emptied of significance. By reading the poetry of Pascoli and Montale vis-a-vis that of Dickinson and Rilke, both of whom Montale makes part of his poetic genealogy through his critical writings and his translation of Dickinson, the project situates the development of modern Italian lyric in an understudied transnational context. The study's conceptual framework involves the poets' philosophical and theological contemporaries, e.g., Giacamo Leopardi, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rudolf Otto, Henri Bergson, and Alfred North Whitehead, as well as recent work in French and Italian phenomenology. The project takes Montale's poetry of the 1940's and 50's as a chronological endpoint, since this poetry epitomizes a modernist recasting of rhetorical features found in premodern mystical discourses. What takes form in Montale, and to varying degrees in his predecessors included in this study, is a particular kind of linguistic and metaphysical openness that in certain respects resembles mystical discourses in the Greek and Christian traditions while radically differing from them in its confrontations with modern scientific frameworks of knowledge.

ISBN: 9781267246837Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Heavy weather and a slant of light: Modernity, mythos, and the metaphysical functions of poetry from Emily Dickinson to Eugenio Montale.
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