Italian Modernism : : Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde /

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

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 modern...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (488 p.)
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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

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