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

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

Blum, Cinzia Sartini

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0520200497
ISBN13: 9780520200494
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jun 21 1996
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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