Publication details
Riabitare e riabilitare i luoghi: tessiture ecologiche e poetiche in Gianni Celati e Franco Arminio
| Title in English | Re-habilitating and Re-habitating Places: Ecological and Poetic writing in Gianni Celati and Franco Arminio |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Romance Notes |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2021.0003 |
| Keywords | Ecopoetry; Celati; Arminio; Literary Geography |
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| Description | Through the reading of Gianni Celati's Verso la foce and Vento forte tra Lacedonia e Candela. Esercizi di paesologia (Exercises in Landscapes) by Franco Arminio, the article aims to highlight some literary expedients used by writers to implement a narrative practice of re-inhabitation and rehabilitation of place. Referring to the theories of some contemporary thinkers who advocate a new vision of the world that overturns anthropocentric absolutism, and thus rethinking the roles between the observed and the observer, it will be shown how the referent-place no longer limits itself to performing a merely descriptive function within novels, but instead claims a significant textual action, becoming a protagonist. Furthermore, using a rereading of Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone, two narrative devices employed by the authors in the construction of their novels of horizontal crossing will be examined; first by means of active immersion, then through the poetics of redemption, the study theorises an aesthetic-ecological tendency that is now increasingly varied and necessary in contemporary authors, whose task is to awaken in the reader a sense of belonging and listening to the environment, the marginal, the forgotten. |