Leopardi's Nymphs
Subtitle: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781907975912
Subjects: Leopardi, giacomo, conte, 1798-1837; Italian poetry, history and criticism
Description: How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject's most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment's pitiless unveiling of truth. Reading Leopardi's poems in the light of Freudian psychoanalysis and of Aby Warburg's and Walter Benjamin's thought, Camilletti gives a ground-breaking interpretation of the way Leopardi negotiates the original fracture between poetry and philosophy that characterises Western culture.