Among text, paratext and context : variants and title types in Verga · This paper intends to characterise titling methods in Verga’s works, analyzing the titles of novels, fiction and drama according to the parameters of textual linguistics, semiotics, stylistics and pragmatics. From the early novels to the works of maturity, emerge various and constant types of this paratextual element : thematic titles ; titles functional to editorial circulation ; ethnolinguistic titles ; intertextual titles. Variants in titles revealed by critical editions and confirmed by epistolaries corroborate this pattern. The title also reveals a metadiegetic value in Verga’s writings, disclosing unsuspected compositional and editorial dynamics, such as a cyclical design extended to tales and even theater in an author strongly attracted to narrative synopses.
Questo studio intende caratterizzare le modalità di intitolazione delle opere verghiane, analizzando i titoli di romanzi, narrativa e teatro in base ai parametri di linguistica testuale, semiotica, stilistica e pragmatica. Dai romanzi giovanili alle opere della maturità emergono varie e costanti tipologie di questo elemento paratestuale : titoli tematici ; titoli funzionali alla circolazione editoriale ; titoli etnolinguistici ; titoli intertestuali. Le varianti dei titoli rivelate dalle edizioni critiche e confermate dagli epistolari confermano questa casistica. Il titolo verghiano mostra anche un valore metadiegetico, svelando insospettate dinamiche compositive ed editoriali, come la progettazione ciclica estesa alle novelle e persino al teatro in un autore fortemente attratto dalle sinossi narrative.
Tra testo, paratesto e contesto: varianti e tipi di titolo in Verga
GABRIELLA ALFIERI
2022-01-01
Abstract
Among text, paratext and context : variants and title types in Verga · This paper intends to characterise titling methods in Verga’s works, analyzing the titles of novels, fiction and drama according to the parameters of textual linguistics, semiotics, stylistics and pragmatics. From the early novels to the works of maturity, emerge various and constant types of this paratextual element : thematic titles ; titles functional to editorial circulation ; ethnolinguistic titles ; intertextual titles. Variants in titles revealed by critical editions and confirmed by epistolaries corroborate this pattern. The title also reveals a metadiegetic value in Verga’s writings, disclosing unsuspected compositional and editorial dynamics, such as a cyclical design extended to tales and even theater in an author strongly attracted to narrative synopses.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.