%0 Journal Article
%T The awes and woes of modernity: Gozzano gazzettiere and the Great Exhibition of Turin 1911
%A Cristina Della Coletta
%J Forum Italicum
%@ 2168-989X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0014585817746670
%X This article discusses the prose pieces that Guido Gozzano wrote about the 1911 International Exposition in Turin. Against previous interpretations, I argue that, rather than constituting either an organic and carefully designed corpus or an assemblage of discreet and extemporary articles, Gozzano¡¯s exposition narratives were, simultaneously, calculated and inconsistent, staged and contradictory. I demonstrate that these narratives should be seen as testimonials of Gozzano¡¯s changing positions and multiple perspectives, as he experimented with different personas and plural interpretations in a moment of both commemorative celebration (the 50th anniversary of the Unification of Italy) and rapid epistemic change in the name of modernity, technology, and progress
%K D¡¯Annunzio
%K D¨¹rer
%K Gozzano
%K International Exposition
%K Melencolia
%K sublime
%K technological sublime
%K Turin 1911
%K wonder
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0014585817746670