Mapping Leopardi : poetic and philosophical intersections / edited by Emanuela Cervato, Mark Epstein, Giulia Santi and Simona Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cervato, Emanuela, editor.

Epstein, Mark (Mark William), editor.

Santi, Giulia, 1983- editor.

Wright, Simona, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837--Criticism and interpretation.

Leopardi, Giacomo.

Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 495 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Contents:

Part 1 On the Romantic-Classic Debate

Chapter 1 Leopardi's Discorso di un Italiano intorno alla poesia Romantica: Prolegomena to a Poetics of Hyperreality p. 22 / Simona Wright

Chapter 2 Sublimity Without Recompense: The Natural Philosophy of Pessimism in Giacomo Leopardi's L'Infinito p. 71 / Gabrielle Sims

Chapter 3 Forgery as a Form of Leopardi's Authorship p. 92 / Martina Piperno

Part II On Literary Form

Chapter 4 The Invention of a Rational Fantastic in Leopardi's Writings, from Zibaldone to Operette morali p. 118 / Daniela Bombara

Chapter 5 La vita solitaria, a Fryean Idyll? p. 144 / Johnny L. Bertolio

Part III On Poetics and Linguistics

Chapter 6 Metre and Style in Leopardi's Puerilia p. 158 / Leonardo Bellomo

Chapter 7 Leopardi's Linguistic Typology of Poetic Forms: A Neglected Chapter in the History of Poetics p. 181 / Stefano Versace

Part IV Readings of Leopardi

Chapter 8 Once Again on Leopardi and the Space of Poetry p. 208 / Luigi Blasucci

Chapter 9 On Poetic Cosmology p. 220 / Antonio Prete

Chapter 10 "Quella forma di ragionar diritta e sana": An Exegesis of Some Philosophical Stanzas in Leopardi's Paralipomeni p. 237 / Andrea Penso

Part V On Faculties of the Mind and Body

Chapter 11 "I Can't Get No Satisfaction": Giacomo Leopardi's Theory of Pleasure p. 260 / Alessandro Carrera

Chapter 12 Giacomo Leopardi on the Act of Reading: The Boredom of Pastime Reading, the Cognitive Block of Studious Reading, and the Release of Agency from Instrumental Intentionality p. 285 / Silvia Stoyanova

Chapter 13 "Memory," "Remembrance," and "Oblivion" in Leopardi's Theory of Knowledge and Poetry p. 311 / Vincenzo Allegrini

Part VI On Philosophy and the Sciences

Chapter 14 The End(s): Teleology and Materialism in Leopardi p. 342 / Mark Epstein

Chapter 15 From Nature to Matter: Leopardi's Anti-Anthropocentrism and Inchoate Proto-Ecological Thinking p. 409 / Rossella Di Rosa

Chapter 16 Chemistry and Natural History in the Young Leopardi: A Comparison between the Saggio di chimica naturale and the Compendio di storia naturale p. 433 / Valentina Sordoni.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781527521834

1527521834

OCLC:

1078435106

Publisher Number:

99983178175