Pasolini after Dante
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Pasolini after Dante

The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation

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Pasolini after Dante

The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation

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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 re-thinking of 'represented reality', suggesting Dante as the best literary, authorial and political model for a generation of postwar Italian writers. This emerged first as 'Dantean realism' in Pasolini's prose and poetry, after Contini's interpretation of Dante and of his plurilingualism, and then as 'figural realism' in his cinema, after Auerbach's concepts of Dante's figura and 'mingling of styles'. Following the evolution of Pasolini's mimetic ideal from these formative influences through to La Divina Mimesis, Emanuela Patti explores Pasolini's politics of representation in relation to the 'national-popular', the 'questione della lingua' and the Italian post-war debates on neorealism, while also providing a new interpretation of some of his major literary and cinematic works.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9781317196143
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: Pasolini After Dante
  10. 1 Setting the Scene: Debates and Contexts
  11. 2 Dante, Poeta Della RealtĂ 
  12. 3 Representing the Reality of the ‘Other’: Objectivity and Plurilingualism from Poesia dialettale del Novecento to Ragazzi di vita
  13. 4 Officina and ‘La Grande Ideologia del Reale’: Dante, Contini, Gramsci, and Auerbach for a Theory of Experimental Literature
  14. 5 Auerbach’s Figural Realism in Pasolini’s ‘National-popular’ Cinema and Beyond
  15. 6 La Divina Mimesis, or the Death of Dantean Realism
  16. Conclusion
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index