1st Edition
Pasolini after Dante The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation
By Emanuela Patti
Copyright 2016
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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What role did Dante play in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)? His unfinished and fragmented imitation of the Comedia, La Divina Mimesis, is only one outward sign of what was a sustained dialogue with Dante on representation begun in the early 1950s. During this period, the philologists Gianfranco Contini (1912-1990) and Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) played a crucial role in Pasolini’s... Read more
1 Setting the Scene: Debates and Contexts 2 Dante, Poeta Della Realtà 3 Representing the Reality of the ‘Other’: Objectivity and Plurilingualism from Poesia dialettale del Novecento to Ragazzi di vita 4 Officina and ‘La Grande Ideologia del Reale’: Dante, Contini, Gramsci, and A uerbach for a Theory of Experimental Literature 5 A uerbach’s Figural Realism in Pasolini’s ‘National-popular’ Cinema and Beyond 6 La Divina Mimesis, or the Death of Dantean Realism
Biography
Emanuela Patti is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
