No. 2 (2021): Una / Κοινῇ - Rivista di studi sul classico e sulla sua ricezione nella letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea
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The trouble with elegy. Linguistic and emotional recovery of Augustan elegy in Cesare Pavese: an intertextual itinerary in The House on the Hill and The Moon and the Bonfires

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  • Chiara Santarelli
Chiara Santarelli
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Published December 27, 2021
Keywords
  • Pavese,
  • Augustan elegy,
  • loneliness,
  • memory,
  • reception
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Santarelli, C. (2021). The trouble with elegy. Linguistic and emotional recovery of Augustan elegy in Cesare Pavese: an intertextual itinerary in The House on the Hill and The Moon and the Bonfires. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, (2), 225-275. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/80

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Abstract

The article intends to investigate the relationship of reception of some of the central motifs of the Augustan elegy within Pavese’s poetics, with particular attention paid to the two novels "La casa in Collina" and "La luna e i falò", for which the intention is to show not only the ideological but also the textual recovery. The intention is to identify Cesare Pavese as the interpreter of the Gadamerian matrix: Pavese, through his reading of the ancient text, was able and knew how to bring it back to life once again, through a self that is both literary and biographical.

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