Francesca Southerden is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Wellesley College. She obtained her D.Phil. in Italian Literature from Hertford College, Oxford and afterwards held the post of Mary Ewart Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford (2007-2010). Her research interests include medieval and modern Italian poetry, especially Dante, Petrarch, and their legacy for the twentieth century; critical theory, especially psychoanalysis and the philosophy of language, and notions of space in literature. She has published several articles on the changing constellation of subjectivity, language, and desire in the work of Dante, Petrarch, and Sereni. She is co-editor, with Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, and Elena Lombardi, of Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages (Oxford: Legenda, forthcoming 2012).

closesly researched

• List of Figures ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction: Assembling the Lyric Universe ; 1. Carte dell'io: Towards a Definition of Subjectivity in Sereni ; 2. Replotting the Textual landscape: The Role of Deixis in Frontiera and Gli strumenti umani ; 3. 'L'incerto lembo': Liminal Topographies from Montale to Sereni ; 4. Poetry as Desire-space: Petrarchan Ascendancies in Gli strumenti umani and Stella variabile ; 5. 'Memorie triste', 'passi perduti': The Melancholy Journey and the Return to Dante ; 6. 'Sei piu in la': The Destination of Poetry, the Limits of Identity ; Appendix: Guide to Index of Archive Catalogue, Archivio Vittorio Sereni, Luino (VA) ; Bibliography ; Index

Francesca Southerden is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Wellesley College. She obtained her D.Phil. in Italian Literature from Hertford College, Oxford and afterwards held the post of Mary Ewart Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford (2007-2010). Her research interests include medieval and modern Italian poetry, especially Dante, Petrarch, and their legacy for the twentieth century; critical theory, especially psychoanalysis and the philosophy of language, and notions of space in literature. She has published several articles on the changing constellation of subjectivity, language, and desire in the work of Dante, Petrarch, and Sereni. She is co-editor, with Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, and Elena Lombardi, of Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages (Oxford: Legenda, forthcoming 2012).

closesly researched

• List of Figures ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction: Assembling the Lyric Universe ; 1. Carte dell'io: Towards a Definition of Subjectivity in Sereni ; 2. Replotting the Textual landscape: The Role of Deixis in Frontiera and Gli strumenti umani ; 3. 'L'incerto lembo': Liminal Topographies from Montale to Sereni ; 4. Poetry as Desire-space: Petrarchan Ascendancies in Gli strumenti umani and Stella variabile ; 5. 'Memorie triste', 'passi perduti': The Melancholy Journey and the Return to Dante ; 6. 'Sei piu in la': The Destination of Poetry, the Limits of Identity ; Appendix: Guide to Index of Archive Catalogue, Archivio Vittorio Sereni, Luino (VA) ; Bibliography ; Index

Francesca Southerden is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Wellesley College. She obtained her D.Phil. in Italian Literature from Hertford College, Oxford and afterwards held the post of Mary Ewart Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford (2007-2010). Her research interests include medieval and modern Italian poetry, especially Dante, Petrarch, and their legacy for the twentieth century; critical theory, especially psychoanalysis and the philosophy of language, and notions of space in literature. She has published several articles on the changing constellation of subjectivity, language, and desire in the work of Dante, Petrarch, and Sereni. She is co-editor, with Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, and Elena Lombardi, of Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages (Oxford: Legenda, forthcoming 2012).

closesly researched

• List of Figures ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction: Assembling the Lyric Universe ; 1. Carte dell'io: Towards a Definition of Subjectivity in Sereni ; 2. Replotting the Textual landscape: The Role of Deixis in Frontiera and Gli strumenti umani ; 3. 'L'incerto lembo': Liminal Topographies from Montale to Sereni ; 4. Poetry as Desire-space: Petrarchan Ascendancies in Gli strumenti umani and Stella variabile ; 5. 'Memorie triste', 'passi perduti': The Melancholy Journey and the Return to Dante ; 6. 'Sei piu in la': The Destination of Poetry, the Limits of Identity ; Appendix: Guide to Index of Archive Catalogue, Archivio Vittorio Sereni, Luino (VA) ; Bibliography ; Index