The Spirit of the Chorus in D'Annunzio's La città morta

Nikopoulos, James

doi:10.1353/cdr.0.0108

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2010

DOI: 10.1353/cdr.0.0108

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The Spirit of the Chorus in D'Annunzio's La città morta

James Nikopoulos¹

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“…8 Both Baldi (1996: 283–284) and Marabini Moevs (1976: 330–331) draw attention to Friedrich Nietzsche’s discussion of incest and Oedipus in The Birth of Tragedy , noting the link between the moral transgression and the possibility of enigmatic knowledge. For more on the influence of Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy on D’Annunzio in these years, see Nikopoulos (2010).…”

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Dannunzian aesthetics and the necrophilic imagination in Le vergini delle rocce

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2017

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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Le vergini delle rocce (1895) represents the culmination of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Aestheticist Roman phase, uniting thematics, narrative, and poetry in the textual fabric of his ‘poema in prosa’. Privileging atmosphere over plot, the novel luxuriates in the beautiful language, landscape, and characters that surround the protagonist, Claudio Cantelmo. This article argues that the production of this beauty depends on D’Annunzio’s adoption and elaboration of a necrophilic aesthetic, one that is linked to Claudio’s assertion of his poetic fantasy and its reliance on the eponymous virgins—Massimilla, Anatolia, and Violante. Through readings of the prologue and the tale-within-a-tale of Umbelino and Pantea, a story of incestuous passion, murder, and necrophilia, the article explores the novel’s complicated interweaving of aesthetics, death, and beauty.

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The Spirit of the Chorus in D'Annunzio's La città morta

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