Possibilities Of Lyric: Reading Petrarch In Dialogue (Cultural Inquiry) - 9783965580145

Opening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion while embracing paradox, non-linearity, incompletion. These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores by reading Petrarch?s vernacular poetry in dialogue with that of other poets, including Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and Shakespeare. In the Epilogue, the poet Antonella Anedda Angioy engages with Ossip Mandel??tam and Paul Celan?s dialogue with Petrarch and extends it into the present.

Author: Manuele Gragnolati, Francesca Southerden

Publisher: Ici Berlin Press

Publication Date: Nov 17, 2020

Number of Pages: 226 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 3965580140

ISBN-13: 9783965580145