Beyond the Family Romance: The Legend of PascoliUniversity of Toronto Press, 15 дек. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 212 Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is one of Italy’s most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascoli’s domestic verse. As suggested by the Freudian title, this study opens a dialogue between Pascoli’s literature and Freud’s theories, with a particular focus on each author’s interrogation of origins. Through close readings and historical contextualization, themes of regression, memory, and other manifestations of ‘origins’ are analyzed, moving Pascoli’s poetry beyond the biographical strictures that have hitherto confined it. Truglio’s post-structuralist readings question the dichotomy between ‘safety within the home’ and the ‘threatening outside world,’ revealing the ambivalences with which images of the home are fraught in Pascoli’s poetry. In addition to the sustained comparison with Freud’s writing, Beyond the Family Romance explores parallels between Pascoli’s work and such writers as Tarchetti, Boito, Poe, and Invernizio. Rethinking the concept of the fanciullino (‘little child’), Truglio shows that Pascoli’s poetry enacts a symbiosis between the logic of the rational modern adult and the mythic vision of the child. |
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... asserts the discovery of a ' source of the Nile , ' positing infantile sexual abuse as the origin at the bottom of every case of hysteria . ' The bottom , of course , would later fall out in Freud's revisions of the seduction theory.1 ...
... asserts that the unusually high number of stars that 'burn and fall' on that night do so as a demonstration of cosmic grief for the evil that has befallen on that day. From this boldly hyperbolic gesture – the claim that the very ...
... asserting paternal identity . I situate Pascoli's story in the context of contemporary representations of infanticide , particularly the criminological inquiries of Cesare Lombroso and the popular fiction of Carolina Invernizio , in ...
... elicits this kind of performance . For , as Weber asserts , the uncanny ' confounds prediction , judgment , and lets a certain form of “ constative ” discourse [ in this case , critical assessments ] reveal Introduction 15.
... assertions by the speaker that he could not hear her ; and finally the speaker's position as being twice on the verge of death by suicide . The poem , then , and indeed much of Pascoli's poetry , positions itself on this brink of ...