Beyond the Family Romance : The Legend of Pascoli by Truglio, Maria New<-

Beyond the Family RomanceThe Legend of Pascoli\nAuthor(s): Maria Truglio\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487587239, 978-1487587239\nSynopsis\nGiovanni Pascoli [tel] is one of Italys most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascolis domestic verse. As suggested by the Freudian title, this study opens a dialogue between Pascolis literature and Freuds theories, with a particular focus on each authors interrogation of origins. Through close readings and historical contextualization, themes of regression, memory, and other manifestations of origins are analyzed, moving Pascolis poetry beyond the biographical strictures that have hitherto confined it.\n\n Truglios post-structuralist readings question the dichotomy between safety within the home and the threatening outside world, revealing the ambivalences with which i.