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analysis of avant garde writings
Author_Cinzia Sartini Blum
avowed misogyny
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centrality of rhetoric of gender
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espousal of violence
feminist and psychoanalytic criticism
formal experimentation to nationalist manifestos
futurist textual practices
italian futurism
italian futurist
rejection of literary tradition
technical revolution
unrelated goals of italian futurism
Product details
- ISBN 9780520200494
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Cinzia Sartini Blum is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Iowa.
