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Pasolini After Dante: The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation
Contributor(s): Patti, Emanuela (Author)
ISBN: 0367598418     ISBN-13: 9780367598419
Publisher: Routledge
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - Italian
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism
- Foreign Language Study
Dewey: 858.914
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6.6" W x 9.8" (0.75 lbs) 178 pages
 
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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.