Crepuscolarismo

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Crepuscolarismo was an early 20th-century Italian literary movement characterized by intimate, melancholic, and anti-rhetorical poetry that focused on everyday, modest subjects.

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instanceOf Italian literary movement
literary movement
countryOfOrigin Italy
culturalContext early 20th-century Italy
etymology Italian word for twilight (crepuscolo)
genre poetry movement
hasCharacteristic anti-decadent reaction
anti-heroic attitude
anti-heroic representation of the self
anti-idealistic stance
anti-oratorical style
anti-rhetorical diction
anti-rhetorical style
domestic settings
everyday melancholy
everyday objects
focus on banal details
focus on daily routines
focus on everyday life
focus on marginal figures
focus on modest subjects
focus on ordinary people
focus on provincial life
intimate tone
introspective mood
ironic detachment
low-key language
melancholic tone
preference for minor themes
preference for small-scale scenes
quiet, subdued atmosphere
reaction against grandiloquent style
reaction against high rhetoric
self-deprecating tone
sense of decline
sense of disillusionment
skepticism toward grand narratives
subdued emotional expression
twilight imagery
understated imagery
use of colloquial language
use of simple vocabulary
influenced 20th-century Italian poetry
influencedBy Decadentism NERFINISHED
language Italian
literaryTradition Italian literature
mainSubject poetry
movementPeriod early 20th century
startTime early 1900s

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Guido Gozzano movement Crepuscolarismo