Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

designate Twentieth-Century textuality.

The first, tied to popularity (often also

taken in its more restrictive meaning),

presupposed at times attitudes of almost

automatic immersion in it (with more than a

few concessions to folkloric and descriptive

data, with the consequence that attention to

“speech” produced typically vernacular

results); at other times, the tendency toward

the detachment typical of middle-class

writers, who tended to elaborate somewhat

moralistically, often giving voice to the

people, the traces provided by reality, or to

ideologize them, certainly not without

risking obvious strains. The second line led

to the preferential selection of consolidated

literary canons in their age-old traditions,

which seemed to guarantee a sort of

dependable grammar, maybe with a

watchful eye as well to behaviors defined by