Significance of the theme of the voice in 'Narratori delle Pianure'

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Significance of the theme of the voice in 'Narratori delle Pianure'
  1. Poetics, Structure, Post-modernist traits
    1. Errance, less structured prose (away from Calvino's style) Absence of the home as an anchor, displacement
      1. A criticism of post-war development which is eradicating tradition
        1. Lack of a straightforward storyline, an open-ended structure
          1. Post-modernist abandonment of control and a strong subject position
            1. Poetics: de-subjectivisation, de-centralisation
              1. Gianni Celati Postmodernista Problematico: Lettura di Notizie ai Naviganti (Alessandro Viti)
              2. Verso la Foce quotation (p.57)
                1. Place and Space, the plains and Narration
                  1. Inspired by walking and getting to know somewhere that at first glance seems desolate
                    1. ppt slide 15 - The plains as a frontier between the past and the present (rural/traditional vs. modern/industrial). 'A journey to recover traces of the past and a sense of shared experience'.
                      1. "The plains as a metaphor for the narrative text. Writing = walking the landscape. A more relaxed attitude to literature
                        1. ppt. slides 24 Place and narration - stories emanating from a place
                          1. Similarity to Dante: errance and chance encounters
                            1. The significance of the map - link between place and narrative?
                              1. Il ritorno del viaggiatore
                              2. Orality and Narrative style, Linguistic features
                                1. Syntactic structure (look this up) lots of detail in ppt 41/42 about linguistic tools used to replicate orality
                                  1. Ombre e fantasmi nel remoto della "bassa". Deissi e passato prossimo nei Narratori delle Pianure di Gianni Celati (Francesca Gatti)
                                  2. Shared context, oral exchange, narrator and listeners are co-present
                                    1. Oral tradition, sense of community which is vanishing. Morals?
                                      1. Untrustworthy narrator ('come mi hanno raccontato' etc.)
                                        1. Changing voices
                                        2. Voice as a storyteller, fantasticazione?
                                          1. Informal (colloquial?) language, deceptively simplistic
                                            1. Oral style incipit, verb/tense choices typical of oral accounts
                                              1. Different narrative style (compared to previous monologic style)
                                              2. MARINA SPUNTA
                                                1. Voicing the Word
                                                  1. Chapter 2: Gianni Celati's Cinema Naturale: ascoltare/parlare il visibile
                                                    1. Le Condizioni del Narrare. Il cinema naturale di Gianni Celati (Francesca Gatta)
                                                  2. Trends in Contemporary Italian Narrative 1980 - 2007
                                                    1. Chapter 3: Inhabiting Displacement (Spunta)
                                                    2. "Abitare lo spaesamento" - narrating the Po valley in contemporary fiction and photography
                                                      1. Aspetti del comico nell'opera di Gianni Celati, Daniele Benati e Ermanno Cavazzoni
                                                      2. Gianni Celati interview by Marco Belpoliti
                                                        1. Il narrare come attività practica - Gianni Celati (own article and referenced in the Belpoliti book)
                                                          1. On the path of Gianni Celati: A reading of Narratori delle Pianure
                                                            1. Gianni Celati's Poetic Prose: Physical, Marginal, Spatial (Barron)
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