marcin
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barren attachment to the municipality, thus
becoming dependent upon Neapolitan
models in their literary output.
Even the dialect literature of Apulia has
been, until the aftermath of the Second
World War, imitative and repetitive. So that
we could certainly subscribe to what Pasolini
was saying in the remote 1952 in his
introductory essay to Poesia dialettale del
Novecento [Dialect Poetry of the Twentieth
Century], published by Guanda,
complaining about a belated Romanticism,
devoid of any polemical or realistic views,
notwithstanding the dramatic historical
events that have unfolded in the South from
the Seventeenth Century to the Unification,
and from then on until the middle of this
century. The last forty years, however, have
ushered in such great economic and social
changes (the demographic displacement,