Ten Steps

This book is a journey into the thought and poetry of Giacomo Leopardi. It sheds new light on his compound of poetic imagination and philosophical complexity using different disciplines and approaches (film studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory), showing the relevance of his thought today in the post-human era.

Fabio Camilletti is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Warwick and Honorary Research Fellow at the Leopardi Centre, University of Birmingham. He has worked extensively on European literature of the Romantic age and has recently completed two monographs on Leopardi and Italian Romanticism. Paola Cori is Honorary Research Fellow at the Leopardi Centre, University of Birmingham. She completed her PhD at Birmingham and was awarded a Giacomo Leopardi Prize by the Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani. She has published articles in leading international journals and she is currently working on two monographs on Leopardi.

Contents: Daniela Cerimonia: The Making of Leopardi in English – Cosetta M. Veronese: Leopardi and the «Zibaldone» into the New Millennium – Roberto Lauro: Le idee e le parole. Il lessico straniero nello «Zibaldone» – David Gibbons: Philological Cosmopolitanism and European Nationalisms: The Background to Leopardi’s Sanskrit References in the «Zibaldone» – Alessandra Aloisi: «L’infinito» come condizione di un’esperienza possibile – Paola Cori: «Time-image» in Poetry and Cinema: Leopardi and Antonioni – Fabio A. Camilletti : Leopardi Sade: Impotence and in «La ginestra» – Emanuela Cervato: Ending the Ancient Covenant: Leopardi and Molecular Biology – Pamela Williams: Leopardi’s Atheism and Religious Existentialism – Luca Malici: Giacomo Leopardi’s «Zibaldone» of (Queer) Thoughts. Inhaltsverzeichnis