Le strategie versoliberistiche di Sergio Corazzini Studio del versoliberismo corazziniano in relazione all’orizzonte d’attesa metrico primo novecentesco

The PhD Thesis examines all work in Corazzini Sergio's free verse. Actually it is the first work which studies the whole free verse production of the Italian poet. The main originality is the methodology used for the analysis: the free verse is examined using an analytic system which are mix metric tools and reception theory. In this way the auctor overcomes the critic problems about free verse literature: actually there is not an unanimous definition of free verse. The work connects technical aspects with those sociological and literary, creating a perfect synergy between two methods: the theory of reception on the one hand, the analysis textual metric on the other. This method allows an objective identification of metric indexes through which to conduct the analysis. This system works about prosodic rules, metric canon laws, horizon of expectation and influences the relationships among poets, various prosodic theories and their relations with the metric system. Also it takes care about all historical, sociological, literary and technical aspects connecting with Corazzini’s free verse. For this reason the thesis firstly debates the fundamentals of a metric-formal examination. It centers on the concept and the contest of the free verse. Also it examines the Corazzini’s status in that time and his relationships with contemporary poets and with the tradition. This thesis recreates the literary contest of the free verse and the debate about it in the nineteenth and twentieth century. At the same time it can show the connection with this debate and Corazzini’s free verse. All free verse poems of Corazzini are studied in detail: each poem is observed through four different metric analysis system. The continuous dialogue between technical data and historical, literary and biographical arguments joins the text with the context of poetic schools and literary trends. The thesis contains four appendices showing the metric data of every composition. Also it contains graphs showing the evolution of the occurrence of free verse. The bibliography offers a section of the index of primary sources for the reconstruction of the literary context between 1876-1916.