Life as Art, Art as Life and Life’s Art: the “Living Poetics” of Italian Modernism KU Leuven
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2016. This article studies the key concept of 'life' within the context of Italian modernism, understood in the broad sense of a network of cultural responses in the period from 1861 until the mid-1930s. Following Roberto Esposito's suggestion that the transversal category of life is distinctive for Italian "living thought" (Esposito), the 'living poetics' here exposed focuses on three key literary ...