Butcher, John Clifford;
(2003)
Eugenio Montale and the literature of the sixties: Intertexts for Satura and the later poetry.
Doctoral thesis , UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
This thesis sets out to explore the significant impact that poetry, fiction and essays published in the Sixties had on the development of Eugenio Montale's later poetry. The primary focus is Satura (1971) but space is also accorded to Montale's ensuing four collections, Diario del '71 e del '72 (1973), Quaderno di quattro anni (1977), Altri versi (1980) and Diario postumo (1996). The first part of this study delves into the role played by contemporary literature in that 'svolta' that took place with the composition of the 'Xenia' (Satura). Amongst those texts mentioned are an Italian translation of verse by William Carlos Williams and Natalia Ginzburg's Lessico famigliare. The second part of this thesis deals with those works that helped effect the grand shift from the poetic mode of the 'Xenia' to that of 'Satura I' and 'Satura 11' (the final two sections of Satura). It devotes detailed attention to several works from the Sixties including Vittorio Sereni's Gli strumenti umani, Nelo Risi's Dentro la sostanza, Karl Lowith's Critica dell'esistenza storica and Andrea Zanzotto's La Belá. During the inquiries into the genesis of the overall form and content of the 'Xenia' and 'Satura I' / 'Satura II' many cases are identified in which the works examined would also appear to have contributed directly to the creation of a particular passage in one of the poems in Satura (or in the successive collections). The third and final part of this study sets out several hypotheses of local textual influence relating to works not discussed extensively in the earlier two parts, dealing firstly with Italo Calvino's fiction of the Sixties and then with other contemporary texts by Italian writers such as Luciano Erba, Antonio Barolini and Umberto Eco.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Title: | Eugenio Montale and the literature of the sixties: Intertexts for Satura and the later poetry |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Thesis digitised by ProQuest. |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10108442 |
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