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Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice

Beverly C. Allen

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Description:The work of the Italian poet, Andrea Zanzotto, is widely considered to be among the most important poetry now being written. It is also considered to be very difficult. Beverly Allen uses a unique methodology of close readings grounded in relevant literary, psychoanalytic, and linguistic theory to demystify this brilliant body of work. Like Dante, Zanzotto draws upon all the levels and corners of his own linguistic cosmos to find signs that suit his poetic project. Again like Dante, he often invents words when those that already exist fall short of his expressive needs. This remarkable linguistic invention, coupled with Zanzotto's relative paucity of verbs, gives his poetry a uniquely material quality.Professor Allen finds in the materiality of Zanzotto's language the cornerstone of whatever meanings the poems produce. Applying stylistic analysis and the discernment of articulated changes in his discourse, she finds a narrative in the poet's early books. The "ontological" narrative is a key to reading his later books and to unveiling the profound historicity of his poetic endeavor.With a mimetic prose that itself demonstrates a Zanzottan sensibility to the strengths and shortcomings of language, Allen's analysis shows us the bases in Zanzotto's work which validate his claim for poetry as a space of otherness, as a discourse in essential opposition to the coercive authority of conventional "history." Already acclaimed in its Italian edition, Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice contains line-for-line translations of Zanzotto's poems, in many cases making them accessible to non-Italian speakers for the first time.Beverly Allen is Assistant Professor of Italian at Stanford University. She has edited two previous books on Italian poetry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice. To get started finding Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The work of the Italian poet, Andrea Zanzotto, is widely considered to be among the most important poetry now being written. It is also considered to be very difficult. Beverly Allen uses a unique methodology of close readings grounded in relevant literary, psychoanalytic, and linguistic theory to demystify this brilliant body of work. Like Dante, Zanzotto draws upon all the levels and corners of his own linguistic cosmos to find signs that suit his poetic project. Again like Dante, he often invents words when those that already exist fall short of his expressive needs. This remarkable linguistic invention, coupled with Zanzotto's relative paucity of verbs, gives his poetry a uniquely material quality.Professor Allen finds in the materiality of Zanzotto's language the cornerstone of whatever meanings the poems produce. Applying stylistic analysis and the discernment of articulated changes in his discourse, she finds a narrative in the poet's early books. The "ontological" narrative is a key to reading his later books and to unveiling the profound historicity of his poetic endeavor.With a mimetic prose that itself demonstrates a Zanzottan sensibility to the strengths and shortcomings of language, Allen's analysis shows us the bases in Zanzotto's work which validate his claim for poetry as a space of otherness, as a discourse in essential opposition to the coercive authority of conventional "history." Already acclaimed in its Italian edition, Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice contains line-for-line translations of Zanzotto's poems, in many cases making them accessible to non-Italian speakers for the first time.Beverly Allen is Assistant Professor of Italian at Stanford University. She has edited two previous books on Italian poetry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice. To get started finding Andrea Zanzotto: The Language of Beauty's Apprentice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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