Synopsis
In contemporary Western societies, lyric poetry is often considered an elitist or solipsistic literary genre. Yet a closer look at its history reveals that lyric has always been intertwined with the politics of community formation, from the imagining of national and transnational discursive communities, to the use of poetry in episodes of collective action, protest, and social resistance. Poetic forms have circulated between languages and traditions from around the world and across time. But how does lyric poetry address or even create communities - and of what kinds? This volume takes a global perspective to investigate poetic communities in dialogue with recent developments in lyric theory and concepts of community. In doing so, it explores both the political potentialities and the perils of lyric poetry.
About the Authors
Irene Fantappiè is Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) of Comparative Literature at the University of Cassino. After completing her PhD at the University of Bologna, she was Humboldt Fellow and researcher at Humboldt Universität in Berlin, and later directed a three-year DFG research project at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include translation, intertextuality, and authorship in Italian and German-speaking literature from the Renaissance to the present day. She is the author of Franco Fortini e la poesia europea. Riscritture di autorialità (2021), La letteratura tedesca in Italia. Un'introduzione (1900-1920) (with A. Baldini et al., 2018), L'autore esposto. Scrittura e scritture in Karl Kraus (2016), and Karl Kraus e Shakespeare. Recitare, citare, tradurre (2012).
Francesco Giusti is Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Italian at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Previously he held fellowships at the University of York, the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, and the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He has published two books devoted respectively to the ethics of mourning and to creative desire in lyric poetry: Canzonieri in morte. Per un'etica poetica del lutto (2015) and Il desiderio della lirica. Poesia, creazione, conoscenza (2016). He co-edited, with Christine Ott and Damiano Frasca, the volume Poesia e nuovi media (2018); with Benjamin Lewis Robinson, The Work of World Literature (2021); and with Adele Bardazzi and Emanuela Tandello, A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry (2022).
Laura Scuriatti is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Bard College Berlin. Her research focuses on modernist literature, with special interest in life-writing, aesthetics and gender. She is the author of Mina Loy's Critical Modernism (2019), the editor of Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds: Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (2019) and the co-editor of Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces Beyond the Centres (2022) and of The Exhibit in the Text: the Museological Practices of Literature (2008). She has also published on H.G. Wells, Mario Praz, Carl Van Vechten.
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