Pasolini after Dante
The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation
- 178 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Pasolini After Dante
- 1 Setting the Scene: Debates and Contexts
- 2 Dante, Poeta Della RealtĆ
- 3 Representing the Reality of the āOtherā: Objectivity and Plurilingualism from Poesia dialettale del Novecento to Ragazzi di vita
- 4 Officina and āLa Grande Ideologia del Realeā: Dante, Contini, Gramsci, and Auerbach for a Theory of Experimental Literature
- 5 Auerbachās Figural Realism in Pasoliniās āNational-popularā Cinema and Beyond
- 6 La Divina Mimesis, or the Death of Dantean Realism
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index