Referring both to some authors who can represente the continuity of a city-based viewpoint (Carlo Cattaneo, 1801-1869, and Carlo Emilio Gadda, 1893-1971) and to the authors most concerned with the end of the peasant world in Italy (Giovanni Pascoli, 1855-1912, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1922-1975), this essay will explore, at the level of intersubjective and intergenerational ‘structures of feeling’, the historical crisis in Italian countryside over the course of around a century, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The city and the countryside are not considered as a traditional contrast, but they constitute polarities within the unitary experience of a changing world, where a society that is silently disappearing is reflected on and resolved through thoughts and complex symbols, while a new world is emerging.
Beyond the City and the Countryside. Modern Displacement of an Ancient Boundary
simone casini
2019
Abstract
Referring both to some authors who can represente the continuity of a city-based viewpoint (Carlo Cattaneo, 1801-1869, and Carlo Emilio Gadda, 1893-1971) and to the authors most concerned with the end of the peasant world in Italy (Giovanni Pascoli, 1855-1912, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1922-1975), this essay will explore, at the level of intersubjective and intergenerational ‘structures of feeling’, the historical crisis in Italian countryside over the course of around a century, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The city and the countryside are not considered as a traditional contrast, but they constitute polarities within the unitary experience of a changing world, where a society that is silently disappearing is reflected on and resolved through thoughts and complex symbols, while a new world is emerging.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
