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Italian Futurism and the First World War /

"Selena Daly's work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front. Beginning with the outbreak...

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Autor principal: Daly, Selena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Futurist Non-belligerence: The Failure of Futurist Interventionism; The Myth of Futurist Interventionism; Futurist Reaction to the Outbreak of the War; Demonstrations, Arrests, and Manifestos; The Split with Lacerba; Futurism in Crisis: Periodicals and Theatre; 2 Futurism at the Front: Futurist Military and Combat Experiences; The Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Motorists; Combat Motivation; Life in the Trenches: Hardships, Discipline, Bombardments; Futurist Emotions in War-Time.
  • The Role of Futurism for Combatant FuturistsFuturist Coping through Parole in Libertà and Letter Writing; 3 Futurismo moderato: Re-imagining Futurism for a War-Time Society; Group Tensions on the Home Front; The Birth of Moderate Futurism; Reaching Out to New Audiences: Teatro Futurista Sintetico and L'Italia Futurista; Best-Selling Futurism; 4 How to Seduce Soldiers: Futurist Propaganda and Politics; Promoting Futurism at the Front; Marinetti: A Propaganda Pioneer; Futurist Responses to Caporetto; The Servizio Propaganda; The Birth of the Futurist Political Party.
  • Roma Futurista and Il MontelloThe End of the War; Epilogue; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.