Montale, The Modernist

by Giuseppe Gazzola

Book cover: Montale, The Modernist

Extent: 242 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Italian Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Biblioteca dell'Archivum Romanicum. Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia

Series volume number: 464, 464

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2016)

ISBN: 9788822264824

Price: $33.00

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Montale, the Modernist identifies the Nobel-winning Italian poet as a preeminent modernist practitioner in the first half of his poetic trajectory (1925-1954). Tracing Montales literary evolution from symbolism to modernism, and eventually describing the overcoming of his modernist poetics, the seven chapters position the quintessential voice of twentieth-century Italian poetry within a European context, arguing for a new understanding of Montale as a powerful modernist force, alongside such figures as Eliot, Pound, Svevo, Larbaud, and Joyce, with all of whom he was in direct contact.

  • By (author) Giuseppe Gazzola