Italian modernism : Italian culture between decadentism and avant-garde /
"This study is the first attempt in English to provide a comprehensive examination of Italian literary modernism. The volume documents how the previous critical categories employed to account for the literary, artistic, and cultural experiences of the period have provided only partial and inade...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
[2004]
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Colección: | Toronto Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The conquest of the stars / Paolo Valesio
- Modernism in Italy: an introduction / Luca Somigli and Mario Moroni
- I: Modernism in context
- Italy and modernity: peculiarities and contradictions / Remo Ceserani.
- II: Decadence and aestheticism
- Sensuous maladies: the construction of Italian Decadentismo / Mario Moroni
- D'Annunzio, Duse, Wilde, Bernhardt: author and actress between decadence and modernity / Lucia Re
- Omnes velut aqua dilabimur: Antonio Fogazzaro, The Saint, and catholic modernism / Laura Wittman
- Overcoming aestheticism / Thomas Harrison
- Transtextual patterns: Guido Gozzano between epic and elegy in 'Goa: "La Dourada"' / Cristina Della Coletta.
- III: Avant-garde
- Modernism in Florence: the politics of avant-garde culture in the early twentieth century / Walter L. Adamson
- Back to the future: temporal ambivalences in F.T. Marinetti's writings / Enrico Cesaretti
- Ungaretti reader of futurism / Antonio Saccone
- Of thresholds and boundaries: Luigi Pirandello between modernity and modernism / Manuela Gieri.
- IV: The return to order: metafisica, novecentismo
- Modernism and the quest for the real: on Massimo Bontempelli's Minnie la candida / Luca Somigli
- De Chirico's heroes: the victors of modernity / Keala Jewell
- Gender, identity, and the return to order in the early works of Paola Masino / Allison A. Cooper.
- V: Towards the postmodern
- Representing repetition: appropriation in de Chirico and after / Jennifer Hirsh.