Examination procedure
<p>Seminar report.</p>
Prerequisites
The course is intended for PhD students, but is also open to students in the undergraduate course.
Syllabus
Language and technique in early Montale: from Ossi to Occasioni
As early as the texts added to the second edition of the Ossi di seppia (1928), Montale's poetic language, while maintaining substantial coherence with the previously elaborated system, shows that it is moving toward greater essentiality and concentration of formal means. The process will come to fruition in Occasions (1939), partly as a result of significant changes in thematic horizons, with the abandonment of Ligurian landscape settings and the new centrality assumed by the love experience, which entail a different approach at every level of construction: lexical choices, syntax, metrics, discursive procedures. The teaching module dedicated specifically to PhD students intends to address this moment of transition and redefinition of a poetic language that seems to be attuned to the most advanced experiences of coeval European poetry.
Bibliographical references
E. Montale, L’opera in versi, edizione critica a cura di G. Contini e R. Bettarini, Torino, Einaudi, 1980.
E. Montale, Le Occasioni, a cura di D. Isella, Torino, Einaudi, 1996.
E. Montale, Le Occasioni, a cura di T. de Rogatis, Milano, Mondadori, 2011.
P. Marini, N. Scaffai (a cura di), Montale, Roma, Carocci, 2019 (in particolare i capitoli 1, 2, 8).
G. Contini, Una lunga fedeltà. Scritti su Eugenio Montale, Torino, Einaudi, 1974.
P.V. Mengaldo, L’«Opera in versi» di Eugenio Montale [1995], in Id., La tradizione del Novecento. Quarta serie, Bollati Boringhieri, 2000, pp. 66-120.
P.V. Mengaldo, Dagli «Ossi di seppia» alle «Occasioni» [2014), in Id., La tradizione del Novecento. Quinta serie, Roma, Carocci, 2017, pp. 197-210.
V. Coletti, L’italiano di Montale, in Il secolo di Montale: Genova 1896-1996, a cura della Fondazione Mario Novaro, Bologna, il Mulino, 1998, pp. 137-160.
L. Blasucci, Gli oggetti di Montale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2002.
S. Bozzola, Seminario montaliano, Roma, Bonacci, 2006.