TY - BOOK AU - Summerfield,Giovanna AU - Santini,Federica TI - The Politics of Poetics: Poetry and Social Activism in Early-Modern through Contemporary Italy SN - 9781443869959 AV - PC1505 U1 - 851.009 PY - 2013/// CY - Newcastle upon Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Italian poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Political aspects KW - Poésie italienne KW - Histoire et critique KW - Aspect politique KW - POETRY KW - Continental European KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX N2 - Through a series of original analyses of poetic works belonging to the Italian canon or purposely posing themselves at the margins of it, this book seeks to highlight poetry as an art form which has the capacity to show the incongruities of society, not just semantically, but especially through the use it makes of signifiers, which allow meaning to come through notwithstanding linear communication. Specifically, this volume identifies and analyzes a line of diverse early modern to contemporar UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=871057 ER -