The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power
University of California Press, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Item #613319
ISBN: 0520200497
A Near Fine copy. Book has shelfwear. Interior is tight, clean, & unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in. // '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.' -- publisher.
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