Giacomo Leopardi's Search For A Common Life Through Poetry : a Different Nobility, A Different Love.
2012
PQ4710 .R67 2012
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Title
Giacomo Leopardi's Search For A Common Life Through Poetry : a Different Nobility, A Different Love.
Author
ISBN
9781611475067 (electronic bk.)
1611475066 (electronic bk.)
1280670045
9781280670046
9786613646972
6613646970
1611475066 (electronic bk.)
1280670045
9781280670046
9786613646972
6613646970
Imprint
Lanham : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (286 pages)
Call Number
PQ4710 .R67 2012
System Control No.
(OCoLC)779141478
Summary
The major themes and human concerns expressed in Leopardi's writings are related to his life experiences and to the historical period in which he lived. Of central interest are the book's discussions of nobility and love as these two themes evolve and change as Leopardi acquired a more general and universal conception of life. The fascinating admixture in his work of classical and modern pe.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Acknowledgments; Sources and Translations; Introduction; Part One: Nobility
A Family Legacy and a Lingering Ideal; 1 Family Connections; 2 Poetry and the Heroic; 3 A Different Nobility; Part Two: Leopardi in Love; 4 The Languages of Love and Misogyny; 5 A Loving Partnership and Consalvo; 6 A Different Love; Part Three: Leopardi as a Poet of the Risorgimento; 7 The Poetry and Rhetoric of Liberal Patriotism; 8 Monaldo and Giacomo Leopardi; 9 Unpleasant, Rancorous Leopardi; 10 Leopardi in a Twentieth-Century Political Context; Part Four: Leopardi as Poet-Philosopher.
11 Nihilism, Death, and the Human Condition12 Nietzsche, Lucretius, and Leopardi; 13 Leopardi between Supernaturalism and Materialism; 14 How Schopenhauer Illuminates Leopardi; Part Five: Humanism in Life and Letters; 15 Friendship and Classical Studies; 16 Women in Leopardi's Intellectual and Sentimental Life; 17 Humanism and Society; Bibliography; Index.
A Family Legacy and a Lingering Ideal; 1 Family Connections; 2 Poetry and the Heroic; 3 A Different Nobility; Part Two: Leopardi in Love; 4 The Languages of Love and Misogyny; 5 A Loving Partnership and Consalvo; 6 A Different Love; Part Three: Leopardi as a Poet of the Risorgimento; 7 The Poetry and Rhetoric of Liberal Patriotism; 8 Monaldo and Giacomo Leopardi; 9 Unpleasant, Rancorous Leopardi; 10 Leopardi in a Twentieth-Century Political Context; Part Four: Leopardi as Poet-Philosopher.
11 Nihilism, Death, and the Human Condition12 Nietzsche, Lucretius, and Leopardi; 13 Leopardi between Supernaturalism and Materialism; 14 How Schopenhauer Illuminates Leopardi; Part Five: Humanism in Life and Letters; 15 Friendship and Classical Studies; 16 Women in Leopardi's Intellectual and Sentimental Life; 17 Humanism and Society; Bibliography; Index.
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Series
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Rosengarten, Frank. Giacomo Leopardi's Search For A Common Life Through Poetry : A Different Nobility, A Different Love. Lanham : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2012
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