D'Annunzio’s Il piacere
A Generational Gaze on New Values
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9815143 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moira Di Mauro-Jackson (Texas State University – San Marcos, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 525-548 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0014585817698421 |
| OpenAlex | W2604811461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper centers on the nature of Gabriele d’Annunzio’s first, and very influential novel, Il piacere, and its influence on Italian thought at the time. I argue that Il piacere is truly a breviary, to borrow Cevasco’s term, a bible—or in socio-economic terms, a manifesto—for its time. I draw from Charles Altieri’s Radical Poetics and from Martin Puchner’s Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos and the Avant-Gardes to prove that Il piacere is indeed a social critique of its time, an attempt by D’Annunzio to bridge the gap that Italian Unification produced by projecting a mostly agricultural country—which had long lost its epic stature, dating back to the Renaissance years—into modern thought and society
Art · Art history · Bridge (graph theory · EPIC · Literature · Manifesto · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Unification · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |