Resumen de Il «potente fantasma»:: lingua e onore nazionale nelle «ambiziose controversie» romantiche
This essay aims at producing a new reading of the ideological general text of Romanticism in order to redefine its social, civil, and political value system. A special relevance will be given to textual practices such as the mixing together of traditional genres (lyrical poetry, narrative, drama) with the result of a code renewal functional to the shaping of a non-elitist national discourse also addressed to the ‘popular audience’. The compromising nature of Italian Romanticism was counterbalanced by its social and esthetic intent, in search of an innovative language. Both pre-Manzoni and post-Manzoni romantic writers produced a new intellectual and syntactic style strongly influencing the evolution of the Italian language.
