‘Al dios (fuera) del lugar’. Shapes, Icons and Objects of the Sacred in “Devocionario” by Ana Rossetti

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9484

Keywords:

Ana Rossetti, Devocionario, sacred, desire, mystical poetry

Abstract

Published eleven years after the end of the Franco dictatorship, Devocionario. Poesía intima (Intimate Poetry) (1986) by Ana Rossetti stands out in the lyrical panorama of the time for its massive recourse to a traditional set of images of the Christian religion, resemantised in the direction of the subjective tale of erotic desire. Through the analysis of sample poems, we intend to reason on the overall meaning of such a peculiar stylistic and content-related choice, with which the author seems to pursue a broader reflection on the very expressibility of poetic language. In a profoundly renewed historical and cultural context, and freed from all forms of control, Ana Rossetti’s lyric poetry is confronted with the obscure, indomitable force of Eros, recognised as the only reality capable of overturning and annihilating norms and statutes of meaning.

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Author Biography

Ida Grasso, University of Calabria

Ida Grasso is Researcher in Spanish Literature at University of Calabria. Her studies focus on the Iberian lyric and romance of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its reception on the Italian side. She edited the Italian translation of El árbol de la ciencia by Pío Baroja (Marchese, 2018). Her book Un topos moderno. Il pellegrinaggio sentimentale nella poesia europea tra Otto e Novecento (Pacini, 2013) won the 2013 edition of the “Opera Critica” Prize, promoted by the Association of Comparative Studies “Sigismondo Malatesta”, and the “Runner up” International Criticism Gadda Prize (Harvard 2015). She also published the monograph Lirica e destino. Il libro di poesia nella Spagna del Novecento (ETS, 2020).

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Published

2022-11-28

How to Cite

Grasso, I. (2022). ‘Al dios (fuera) del lugar’. Shapes, Icons and Objects of the Sacred in “Devocionario” by Ana Rossetti. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (6), 106–124. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9484

Issue

No. 6 (2022): Like a Prayer. Forms of the Religiousness and the Sacred in Contemporary Writings and Arts (1990-2020)

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Sezione monografica

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