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Killing the moonlight
As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by \"killing the moonlight\" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase. Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture—from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover—Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new. Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.
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Tuning as Lyricism: The Performances of Orality in the Poetics of Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin
Tuning might be the figure best suited to joining this pair of apparently incongruous texts, tuning in the sense defined by David Antin as \"a negotiated concord or agreement based on vernacular physical actions with visible outcomes like walking together,\" as opposed to understanding, which is predicated, Antin contends, \"on a geometrical notion of congruence.\" The latter typifies a poetic culture Antin and Jerome Rothenberg would identify as literal, possessing a relatively rigid relationship to language and heritage, wielding text as an instrument for modeling and containing meaning, while the former is characteristic of what Antin has called a \"software society\" whose programming stresses the continuity of process rather than any final product, presupposing a work's adaptation to the ambient context at hand. Tuning as figure situates the poetic act in the realm of the oral/aural without recourse to romantic assumptions surrounding the singularity and presence of lyric voice or naive \"anthropological\" notions of cultural origins. Here, Scappettone explores the performances of orality in the poetics of Rothenberg and Antin.
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XENOGLOSSIA
Denotes the intelligible use, through speech, aural comprehension, reading, or writing, of a natural lang. one has not learned formally
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Utopia Interrupted: Archipelago as Sociolyric Structure in \A Draft of XXX Cantos\
This essay explores Venice's recurrence as an implicit structure in Ezra Pound's \"Cantos,\" arguing that the built archipelago provides a model for the modernist text, created through engagement with recalcitrant objective dynamics opposed to their containment by an imperious subject-and proffering the canalized republic as a counter to Pound's eventual fascist city of man. The rigorous empiricism of Ruskin's Venetian histories supplies a founding set of tropes through which the fluid, fractured cityscape becomes a taunt to find material ground for historical meaning. Pound, taking up the multiple construction of Venice that haunted Ruskin, locates in it a utopian-and site-oriented-poetic structure valorizing the interstitial and thus the relational, the differential. The Venetian complex that emerges intermittently in \"The Cantos\" literalizes the unsettling of Pound's attempt to monumentalize the body politic, remaining unassimilated-and challenging to efforts to transfix any totality construed as part of the project of modernity.
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