[Ryan Calabretta-Sajder]

Il poeta civile: ieri, oggi e domani

Call for Papers: AATI @ MLA (Philadelphia, PA)

January 5-8, 2017

For Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death marked the loss of a great poeta civile whose work uniquely bore a Leftist political stamp.

 

“La poesia civile era sempre stata a destra in Italia, dall’inizio dell’Ottocento, da Foscolo su su passando per Carducci fino a D’Annunzio, sia per i contenuti sia, anche quando i contenuti erano rivoluzionari, come nel primo Carducci, per moduli formali. I poeti italiani del secolo scorso avevano sempre inteso la poesia civile in senso trionfalistico eloquente, celebrativa. Pasolini, invece, ci diede una poesia civile che aveva tutta l’intimità, la sottigliezza, l’ambiguità e la sensualità del decadentismo e lo slancio ideale dell’utopia socialista.”

 

Though this concept neither began nor ended with Pasolini, its prominence and significance has changed over time.  This session aims to reshape and define the poeta civile as we conceive him or her today. Coupled with advances in technology and information media, we ask:

 

How does the poeta civile of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, speak to us?

Who is his or her audience?

What orientations and ideologies and objectives characterize her work or her following today?

 

Please send a 200-250 word abstract, with a brief bio and a short bibliography to both Ryan Calabretta-Sajder (rcalabretta@gmail.com) AND Colleen Ryan (ryancm@indiana.edu) by Saturday March 5, 2016.  Please make sure to include a short bibliography or works cited section.

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