Mostri, portenti ed apparizioni Corpi trasfigurati nei romanzi di Michele Mari
Monsters, Portents, and Apparitions Transfigured Bodies in the Novels of Michele Mari

Summary/Abstract: In the writing of Michele Mari, the body always serves as a starting point for scholarlyinterpretations of past literature. The transfiguration of the theme of corporeality occurson two foundational levels of the literary work: the narrative and the verbal levels.On the verbal level, through archaisms, lists, and neologisms, the semantic field ofcorporeality arises as a lexical extension of the alienated characteristics of the depictedbodies. On the narrative level, the representation of the monstrous, abnormal, or deformedbody as a carrier of symbolic meanings appears as an image of the chaos of untamableNature or as a reflection of the animalistic side of human identity. The monstersin Mari’s work are intertextual references to European heritage literary figures, interpretedin a grotesque manner.

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