Autore
Aloisi, Alessandra

Titolo
Una macchina dal nome infernale in arrivo da un paese romantico
Periodico
Intersezioni
Anno: 2017 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 163 - Pagina finale: 182

In the "Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry" (1818), one of the most representative texts of the Italian Classicist/Romantic quarrel, Leopardi accuses Romantic poetry of operating like a machine that produces nothing but a passive imitation of reality. By proposing some hypotheses concerning the nature of that mysterious device, this article analyses the importance of such a negative analogy between Romantic poetry and a machine. This analogy sums up the very essence of the aesthetic revolution that took place between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries: a revolution that, with Jacques Rancière, we can define as a shift from the regime of representation to the aesthetic regime of art.



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