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The Eloquence of Ghosts

Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde
Buch | Softcover
244 Seiten
2023 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80374-199-4 (ISBN)

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The Eloquence of Ghosts - Florian Mussgnug
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Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990), one of Italy’s most radical and original writers, went further than most in exploring the creative possibilities of hybrid genres and open forms. Ostentation, theatricality, and a love of drapery and verbal excess are defining features of his body of work, which ranges from prose fiction, literary criticism, and drama to travel writing, treatises, commentaries, and imaginary interviews.
This study examines the wealth of Manganelli’s imagination – his grotesque animals, speaking corpses, and melancholy spectres – and argues that his spectacular eloquence was shaped by an exceptional awareness of literary and philosophical models. Following Manganelli’s lead, the author addresses issues such as the boundaries of meaningful language, the relationship between literary and visual texts, fantasy and realism, and the power of literature to express the apprehensions and intimations of human consciousness.

Florian Mussgnug is Lecturer in Italian Literature at University College London. His publications include Lutero e la riforma protestante (2003), Folly: Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies (2008, co-edited with Lucia Boldrini), and Postmodern Impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture (2009, co-edited with Pierpaolo Antonello), as well as articles on twentieth-century Italian literature, philosophy of language, and literary theory. He is co-editor of Contemporanea and a member of the executive committee of the British Comparative Literature Association.

Contents: Beyond the Avant-garde – Philosophy, Literature, and Anguish – Inside the Linguistic Universe – The Shadow of the Labyrinth – Masks of Storytelling – Writing in Circles – After the Funeral – In the Company of Ghosts.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 225 mm
Gewicht 369 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
ISBN-10 1-80374-199-6 / 1803741996
ISBN-13 978-1-80374-199-4 / 9781803741994
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