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Title: | T.S. Eliot and Eugenio Montale : 'similar flowers on distant branches?' |
Authors: | Lauri-Lucente, Gloria |
Keywords: | Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Comparative literature Poetry Italian literature -- English influences Modernism (Literature) Intertextuality |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies |
Citation: | Lauri-Lucente, G. (2009). T.S. Eliot and Eugenio Montale : 'similar flowers on distant branches?' Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies, 10, 173-187. |
Abstract: | The following study will treat the relationship between T.S. Eliot and Eugenio Montale as a stubbornly elusive enigma which has bedevilled literary critics since the late 1940s. It is divided into two distinct parts. The first part will discuss a well-known essay by Mario Praz which set in motion the idea of a direct influence on Montale by Eliot.' Montale's reaction to the notions set forth by Praz will then be examined via a discussion of some of his theoretical formulations in prose. In seeking to develop a general framework for comparison between Eliot and Montale, the first part of the study will include references to both Harold Bloom's notions on the anxiety of influence and also to the phenomenon of heterotextuality as defined by Claudio Guillen. The second part of the study will move from methodological reflections of a more general nature to the analysis of Montale's verse, which is addressed to numerous distinct beloveds in differing periods of his poetic production, all of them appearing and reappearing at various points as though in multiple metamorphoses of one basic female figure. The progression along a line of objects, one metamorphosed into the other, seems gradual and filtered over time even as elements of change appear dramatically new, creating the odd mixture of motion on the surface of underlying stasis that results in the particular texture of Montale's verse. The contrast between two of these female objects of desire, Clizia and Mosca, will show how the influence model becomes progressively less viable in the discussion of Montale's later works as the poet distances himself from his theory of the suppression of the 'occasione spinta,' or the 'propelling occasion,' which critics have frequently equated with Eliot's formulation of the 'objective correlative.' |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/128038 |
ISSN: | 15602168 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies, vol. 10 |
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