Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian poetry. The close examination of the linguistic and ideological diversity embedded in these authors works shows how narratives of Greek tragedy shaped their poetic universe and how their work influenced the Greek paradigm in return. The reader is presented with a textual analysis of Sbarbaros and Bemporads translations as wel...See More