Abstract
This essay aims to chronologically analyze Girardi’s studies on Manzoni. In accordance with Girardi’s theoretical assumptions, these studies were mostly focused on I promessi sposi, where reality and the ideal textually converge. The study takes into account his main novelties, that today are still as fruitful as ever: the dualism as a fundamental element of Manzoni’s whole literary history and in particular of his I promessi sposi; the recognition of the 17th century chroniclers’ Christian realism on the novel’s composition; the dislocation of the sacred as a narrative procedure; the definition of «romanzo della speranza» (hope novel) that gets over the infertile contraposition between Manzoni’s optimism and pessimism.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] The novel of hope. Enzo Noè girardi scholar of Manzoni |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 83-109 |
Numero di pagine | 27 |
Rivista | TESTO |
Volume | XLII |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2021 |
Keywords
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Critica letteraria
- Enzo Noè Girardi
- History of Critics
- Literary Critics
- Storia della critica