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Polisemie

Abstract

The aim of this study is twofold: on the one hand, it purports to develop a model to investigate universal or generic propositions (e.g., theses, maxims, proverbs, aphorisms) and their effects in poetry; on the other, it applies such model to four poetry collections by Cristina Annino, Milo De Angelis, Marco Giovenale, and Guido Mazzoni. The analysis, guided by the criteria and parameters established by the model, has allowed to discover in what textual forms and pragmatic functions the aforementioned authors express contents worth of memic transmissibility, as well as related effects of authority, necessity, wisdom, intuition, collective relevance. Mazzoni’s reliance on theses, for instance, has been interpreted as an attempt to gain an objective knowledge of the world, differently from Annino’s more subjective aphorisms or De Angelis’ utterances, which are rooted in the here-and-now and yet capable of transcending themselves by virtue of their archetypal relevance. The model propo...