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The book explores the intimate connection between poetry and politics in modernity and, in particular, in liberal and fascist Italy. Through a historical and interdisciplinary approach, the essays focus on various fundamental passages of liberal system crisis: political poetry as an act of rebellion against the social and economic system; as a tool of disintegration of bourgeois morality and civilization; as a pillar of the building and consolidation of the fascist regime; as a central instrument of the myth of the 'new man'. What emerges is a mosaic capable of enlightening the values and disvalues and the transformation of Italian radical and nationalist mindset, through the elimination of the boundaries between 'matter' and 'spirit' and between different disciplines: as in the liberal period, political poetry deals with new issues such as Time, Space, and the Body, so in the totalitarian Fascist culture integrates and contaminates other aesthetic forms: theatre, dance, architecture
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Roger Griffin: The double helix of cultural DNA: aestheticizing politics and politicizing aesthetics - Elena Papadia: Rebellious poetry in Post-Risorgimento Italy (1870-1900) - Dino Mengozzi: Alfredo Oriani and the Challenges of the Human Body from Lay Asceticism to Personal Free Time (1871-1909) - Larissa Maria Müller: 'Nauseato di vecchi muri': Boccioni's Poem in Parolibero Style Opening a Breach in the Politico-Aesthetic Edifice - Claudio Fogu: Mediterranean Imaginaries in the Age of Modernism - Enrico Serventi Longhi: 'Clepsydra Mentitur'. Time in D'Annunzio's Aesthetics and Politics - Lorenzo Benadusi: Antimodernist Futurism: An Oxymoron between Poetry and Theatre - Aristotle Kallis: Architecture, Poetry, and Politics as Total Experience in Fascist Italy: the Danteum - Carlo Leo: 'Fascist is the Writer Who': The Narrative Power at the Intersection of Literature and Politics in the Antologia degli scrittori fascisti - Eleftheria Ioannidou: The Sweet Vitality of the Dancing Bodies: Classical Embodiment, Modernist Poetics, and Fascist Visions in Sophocles' Trachiniae at Syracuse in 1933 - Afterthoughts Enrico Serventi Longhi: Re-visiting Relationships between Aesthetics and Politics: a Manifesto of Future Interdisciplinary Research.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Enrico Serventi Longhi is Senior Researcher at the University of Messina. He is author of essays and books on political and institutional cultures between the 19th and 20
th centuries. He also works on the history of journalism and on the links between aesthetics and politics in Modern and Contemporary Italy.
Roger Griffin is Emeritus Professor at Oxford Brookes University and author of a number of influential publications on the theory and definition of generic fascism and specialized studies of some of its many entanglements such as neofascism, terrorism, political anthropology, and populism. Cofounder of the journal
Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (2011) and COMFAS: Association for the Comparative Study of Fascism (2018).
