The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Italy

Stefano Evangelista has completed a PhD in Italian literature at Durham University, where he is also a postgraduate member of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. He has been a visiting fellow in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and a visiting PhD student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Valeria Giannantonio is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the Università degli Studi «G. D'Annunzio» Chieti - Pescara. Her research interests include early modern Italian literature and the literary work of Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ignazio Silone and the crepuscular poets. She is member of the editorial boards of Critica letteraria, Studi medievali e moderni and Studium. Elisabetta Selmi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature and Medieval and Renaissance Theatre in the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari at the University of Padua. Her research interests focus on Renaissance and early modern literature and theatre, nineteenth-century studies, classical poetics and religious literature.

CONTENTS: Stefano Evangelista: Introduction: Decadence and regeneration in fin-de-siècle culture - Linda Garosi: La letteratura della crisi: riflessioni e riformulazioni nelle riviste italiane di fine secolo - Sara Boezio: Regenerating at the turn of the century: Ibsen's, Tolstoy's, and Zola's metaphors of (re)birth in fin-de-siècle Italy - Giulia Brian: «Scrivo così come leggo, con l'anima e cercando l'anima»: Fogazzaro e la «mistica ebbrezza» dell'arte - Elisabetta Selmi: «Lo sguardo dell'anima»: appunti di lettura sul «Modernismo mistico» nel «dialogo mancato» tra Fogazzaro e Boine - Valeria Giannantonio: Panzacchi e le arti figurative - Patrizia Zambon: Fuori dal realismo: Anna Zuccari e il progetto del romanzo simbolista - Elena Borelli: Taming desire: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Gabriele D'Annunzio's novels (1889-1900) - Aldo Putignano: Alcyone e il simbolismo europeo - Michael Subialka: Diva decadence: Conflicted modernity from death to regeneration