The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power - Hardcover

Blum, Cinzia Sartini

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520200489 ISBN 13: 9780520200487

Verlag: University of California Press, 1996

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Reseña del editor:

Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of Italian Futurism: technical revolution, espousal of violence, avowed misogyny, and rejection of literary tradition. Blum argues for the centrality of the rhetoric of gender in Marinetti's work. She also investigates a diverse array of his futurist textual practices that range from formal experimentation with "words in freedom" to nationalist manifestos that advocate intervention in World War I and anticipate subsequent fascist rhetoric of power and virility. A major contribution to the study of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the first full-length study of Marinetti in English, "The Other Modernism" will interest all those concerned with twentieth-century literature, culture, and society and the problem of modern subjectivity.

Biografía del autor:

Cinzia Sartini Blum is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Iowa.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0520200489
• ISBN 13: 9780520200487
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250