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Decadence and regeneration in d'Annunzio's Il piacere (1889)

(2022) ROMANCE QUARTERLY. 69(4). p.214-227
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This paper considers the dialectics between national decadence and regeneration in d'Annunzio's Il piacere. It argues that the novel's fin-de-siecle reception was conditioned by the author's prior classification as an immoral, anti-national writer in the wake of the poetry collection Intermezzo di rime. This classification determined a reading of d'Annunzio's debut novel in terms of decadence, while Il piacere itself actually pointed toward a literature of regeneration. The novel staged d'Annunzio's opposition to his own prior classification, while making claims for a more committed and more internationally relevant model of Italian literature in the context of European modernity.
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d'Annunzio, Il piacere, fin-de-siècle Italy, decadence, regeneration

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MLA
Nemegeer, Guylian. “Decadence and Regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il Piacere (1889).” ROMANCE QUARTERLY, vol. 69, no. 4, 2022, pp. 214–27, doi:10.1080/08831157.2022.2118562.
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Nemegeer, G. (2022). Decadence and regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il piacere (1889). ROMANCE QUARTERLY, 69(4), 214–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2022.2118562
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Nemegeer, Guylian. 2022. “Decadence and Regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il Piacere (1889).” ROMANCE QUARTERLY 69 (4): 214–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2022.2118562.
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Nemegeer, Guylian. 2022. “Decadence and Regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il Piacere (1889).” ROMANCE QUARTERLY 69 (4): 214–227. doi:10.1080/08831157.2022.2118562.
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Nemegeer G. Decadence and regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il piacere (1889). ROMANCE QUARTERLY. 2022;69(4):214–27.
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G. Nemegeer, “Decadence and regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il piacere (1889),” ROMANCE QUARTERLY, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 214–227, 2022.
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  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2022.2118562}},
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