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

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.

About the author

Cinzia Sartini Blum is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Iowa.

Summary

Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, this text provides an analysis of the rhetoric, politics and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian futurist, F.T. Marinetti.

Product details

• Authors: Cinzia Sartini Blum, Blum Cinzia Sartini
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.06.1996
• EAN: 9780520200494
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20049-4
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Italian, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis