Abstract. Italian Americans on Emily Dickinson. Besides their culture, migrants to the New World carried across their character, disposition, virtues and vices, the memory of what they were leaving, and their hopes in the future; they carried across themselves, and, once in loco, they longed, or just happened, in many cases, to become acquainted, or even identify with personalities of the new land. One of them was Emily Dickinson with whom the Italian writers who loved her and her poetry shared – mutatis mutandis – a complex familiar interconnectedness, a sense of [geographical] distance to come to terms with, an effortlessly conquered independence of mind and spirit, a love for life, and a life of love. This essay focuses upon a number of Italian-Americans - among them, Sandra Gilbert, Helen Barolini, Daniela Gioseffi, and Paul De Filippo -- who wrote critical essays and fictional works on the Amherst poet, thus highlighting the connections existing between Dickinson’s and Italian/American poetry.
Mary Jo Bona, ., Fred, G., Anthony Julian Tamburri, ., Carla, F., Daniela, R., Stefanelli, M.A., et al. (2018). Italian Americans on Emily Dickinson. In C.F. Sabrina Vellucci (a cura di), Re-Mapping Italian America. Places, Cultures, Identities (pp. 199-226). New York, N.Y. : Bordighera Press.
Italian Americans on Emily Dickinson
Maria Anita Stefanelli;MUSCIO, GIULIANA;Sabrina Vellucci;Vito Zagarrio
2018-01-01
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Abstract. Italian Americans on Emily Dickinson. Besides their culture, migrants to the New World carried across their character, disposition, virtues and vices, the memory of what they were leaving, and their hopes in the future; they carried across themselves, and, once in loco, they longed, or just happened, in many cases, to become acquainted, or even identify with personalities of the new land. One of them was Emily Dickinson with whom the Italian writers who loved her and her poetry shared – mutatis mutandis – a complex familiar interconnectedness, a sense of [geographical] distance to come to terms with, an effortlessly conquered independence of mind and spirit, a love for life, and a life of love. This essay focuses upon a number of Italian-Americans - among them, Sandra Gilbert, Helen Barolini, Daniela Gioseffi, and Paul De Filippo -- who wrote critical essays and fictional works on the Amherst poet, thus highlighting the connections existing between Dickinson’s and Italian/American poetry.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
