Reading the Afterlife of Isabella di Morra’s Poetry

• Gabriella Scarlatta Eschrich ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     City of Ann Arbor, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, ISSN 0732-7730, ISSN-e 1936-1645, Vol. 34, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 273-304
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article analyzes the afterlife of the Italian Renaissance poet Isabella di Morra, whose texts engendered many textual and virtual communities through their numerous publications from 1552 to 2008. It shows how her author function was mediated by early modern male editors, by the Giolito anthologies, and by various publishers, literary critics, and modern artists. The several communities that Morra’s poems produced are here envisioned as an organic rhizome, as theorized by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, since the transmittal and reception of her texts and ideas created a multiplicity of literary and virtual communities, including those crafted more recently by a French playwright and an Italian singer-songwriter. Morra’s oeuvre continues to dialogue with writers and readers and to generate a vibrant, prosperous afterlife constructed somewhere in between the early modern anthologies and the virtual communities of other early modern women writers.