| The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power Contributor(s): Blum, Cinzia Sartini (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520200497 ISBN-13: 9780520200494 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $30.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Italian - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 858.912 |
| LCCN: 96003604 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.03" W x 9" (0.77 lbs) 250 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
