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Francesco Giusti
Recitation
Lyric Time(s) I
What is the time of the lyric? For Augustine, the recitation of a hymn illustrates the workings of time in the human mind; for Giorgio Agamben, the poem itself exemplifies the structure of what he defines as ‘messianic time’. By focusing on Dante’s sonnet ‘Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare’ and looking at the double act of the recitation of the poem and the re-citation of prior gestures, the temporality of both the single poem and lyric discourse will come into focus.
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Recitation
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| Subtitle |
Lyric Time(s) I
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| Author(s) |
Francesco Giusti
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| Description |
What is the time of the lyric? For Augustine, the recitation of a hymn illustrates the workings of time in the human mind; for Giorgio Agamben, the poem itself exemplifies the structure of what he defines as ‘messianic time’. By focusing on Dante’s sonnet ‘Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare’ and looking at the double act of the recitation of the poem and the re-citation of prior gestures, the temporality of both the single poem and lyric discourse will come into focus.
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| Place |
Berlin
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| Publisher |
ICI Berlin Press
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| Date |
2019
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| Subject |
lyric
retrospection
reading
transhistoricism
reenactment
reference
iterability
performance
time
Augustine
Giorgio Agamben
Dante
recitation
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| Rights |
© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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| Harvested |
yes
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| Language |
en-GB
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| short title |
Recitation
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| page start |
35
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| page end |
47
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| Source |
Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 35–47
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