Vol. 3 No. 3 (2022): Una / Κοινῇ - Journal of Classical Studies and their Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
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Words and aphasia in the afterlife: talking with the dead as a meta-genre

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  • Alessia Vecchi
Alessia Vecchi
Università di Bologna
Published December 19, 2022
Keywords
  • epos,
  • contemporary poetry,
  • rhetoric,
  • dialogism,
  • dead,
  • underworld
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How to Cite
Vecchi, A. (2022). Words and aphasia in the afterlife: talking with the dead as a meta-genre. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, 3(3), 214-241. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/108

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Abstract

This article aims to act as a springboard for reflection about two different queries: throughout literature, when are dialogues with individuals from the underworld present? And why do authors decide to engage with them in their writings? This is a topos which extends over centuries and literary genres within the Western tradition. The perspective spaces from the epicHomeric model of the Odyssey XI, up to Montale’s Xenia in order to identify parallelisms and fractures in a diachronic continuity that combines classic and contemporary.

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