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The Other Modernism

The Other Modernism F.T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power

Hardback (17 Jun 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780520200487
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 858.91209
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 212
Weight: 514g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 24mm