Resumen de La persistenza del Modernismo nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli: consonanze con "The Waves"
The Persistence of Modernism in the Poetry of Amelia Rosselli: Consonances with "The Waves" · This essay is focused on what Madelyn Detloff calls 'the persistence of modernism'. A comparative analysis of Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves – an annotated copy of which is kept in Fondo Rosselli in Viterbo – and Rosselli’s poetry shows illuminating consonances between Rosselli’s poetics, themes, stylistic strategies and Woolf’s modernism. Rosselli and Woolf share modernist characteristics such as impersonality, the strict relationship between music and poetry, the same concept of time, the dialogue with Tradition. Besides, Rosselli’s imagery often seems to come from Woolf’s. Rosselli, like Woolf, believed that the role of literature is the representation of experience and the preservation of collective memory as a lasting political and ethical cry for social justice, sympathy and peace.
