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- Title
What's the Buzz About The Flies? Borges, Mapmaking, and the Art of Anthologizing.
- Authors
DE THOMASIS, SANDRO-ANGELO
- Abstract
This paper examines how Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies, a recent anthology of Italian poetry, possesses an avant-garde - and yet pragmatic - approach to the art of anthologizing. It does so by briefly discussing the current state of contemporary anthologies of Italian poetry and their unwillingness to tackle important theoretical issues. It then addresses these issues by drawing a homology between cartography, semiotics, and literary historiography. In order to better grasp the particularity of Italian literary historiography and the issues contained therein, it then provides a succinct excursus on its history and development. This allows to shed light on the break with the Desanctisian paradigm initiated by Dionisotti amid the turmoil of the Sixties, as well as the subsequent call to a return to a pre-Risorgimento model in Tiraboschi. An overview of the various responses to this paradigm shift is then provided, setting the stage for The Flies and the novel way in which this most recent anthology manages to synthesize these various theoretical axioms of literary historiography.
- Subjects
CARTOGRAPHY; HOMOLOGY theory; HISTORIOGRAPHY of literature; AXIOMS; ITALIAN poetry
- Publication
Italica, 2018, Vol 95, Issue 4, p642
- ISSN
0021-3020
- Publication type
Article