marcin
(Marcin)
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Molisan poetry in this volume), from the
particular socio-economic and demographic
context, enduring in its “rural” integrity
until the Sixties and Seventies, when there
takes place a rather hybrid process of
“standardization” (due above all to the mass
media), in which human and cultural
models in striking conflict will be able to
coexist in an unsettling mixture; the
tendency to avoid the risk of aberrant
calques and contaminations seems to
characterize the activity of the “nuovissimi,”
whose production is distinguished by their
philological rigor and their preference for
archaisms.
Meanwhile it must be noted that in
Rimanelli (as at any rate in other
“nuovissimi,” like Giuseppe Jovine: cf. Lu
pavone, Campobasso, 1983; La sdrenga, 1989)
the choice of dialect as a means of expression