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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XVIII , n° 2, Dicembre 2000 ( Contributi ) pag. 260-269
REPETITION'S Α-SAMENESS: AVOIDING
REPRODUCTION AU FOND DE L'INCONNU
ANN SNODGRASS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Novelty, almost all readers and critics of Amelia Rosselli's
exceptionally enigmatic poetry can agree, must be considered
the foundation of her aesthetics. The process of reading her
work often becomes the process of realizing the intricate problematics involved in speaking through rather than with dominant discourse. If originality is, in fact, so highly prioritized by this poet, one might immediately expect repetition to be figured as an arch enemy of such an aesthetic. In keeping with Rosselli's characteristic unpredictability, however, repetition figures as a dominant characteristic throughout her work. This apparent contradiction will hopefully align itself into a
consistent aesthetic through the necessary context of Walter Benjamin's approach to contemporary art and his reading of Baudelaire - that unignorable presence in poetry of this century in which the valorization of novelty may have reached its apex. [...]
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