Italian Modernism : : Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde / / ed. by Luca Somigli, Mario Moroni.

• MitwirkendeR: Adamson, Walter L.,; Cesaretti, Enrico,; Ceserani, Remo,; Coletta, Cristina Della,; Cooper, Allison A.,; Gieri, Manuela,; Harrison, Thomas,; Hirsh, Jennifer,; Jewell, Keala,; Moroni, Mario,; Re, Lucia,; Saccone, Antonio,; Somigli, Luca,; Valesio, Paolo,; Wittman, Laura,
• HerausgeberIn: Moroni, Mario,; Somigli, Luca,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

Italian Modernism was written in response to the need for an historiographic and theoretical reconsideration of the concepts of Decadentismo and the avant-garde within the Italian critical tradition. Focussing on the confrontation between these concepts and the broader notion of international modernism, the essays in this important collection seek to understand this complex phase of literary and artistic practices as a response to the epistemes of philosophical and scientific modernity at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first three decades of the twentieth. Intellectually provocative, this collection is the first attempt in the field of Italian Studies at a comprehensive account of Italian literary modernism. Each contributor documents how previous critical categories, employed to account for the literary, artistic, and cultural experiences of the period, have provided only partial and inadequate descriptions, preventing a fuller understanding of the complexities and the interrelations among the cultural phenomena of the time. Electronic Format Disclaimer: Images removed at the request of the rights holder.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: After The Conquest of the Stars -- Contributors -- Modernism in Italy: An Introduction -- PART I. Modernism in Context -- 1. Italy and Modernity: Peculiarities and Contradictions -- PART II. Decadence and Aestheticism -- 2. Sensuous Maladies: The Construction of Italian Decadentismo -- 3. D'Annunzio, Duse, Wilde, Bernhardt: Author and Actress between Decadence and Modernity -- 4. Omnes velut aqua dilabimur: Antonio Fogazzaro, The Saint, and Catholic Modernism -- 5. Overcoming Aestheticism -- 6 Transtextual Patterns: Guido Gozzano Between Epic and Elegy in 'Goa: "La Dourada"' -- PART III. Avant-Garde -- 7. Modernism in Florence: The Politics of Avant-Garde Culture in the Early Twentieth Century -- 8. Back to the Future: Temporal Ambivalences in F.T. Marinetti's Writings -- 9. Ungaretti, Reader of Futurism -- 10. Of Thresholds and Boundaries: Luigi Pirandello between Modernity and Modernism -- PART IV. The Return to Order: Metafisica, Novecentismo -- 11. Modernism and the Quest for the Real: On Massimo Bontempelli's Minnie la Candida -- 12. De Chirico's Heroes: The Victors of Modernity -- 13. Gender, Identity, and the Return to Order . in the Early Works of Paola Masino -- PART V. Towards the Postmodern -- 14. Representing Repetition: Appropriation in de Chirico and After -- Index