The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520200494)

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.

Author: Cinzia Sartini Blum
ISBN-10: 0520200497
ISBN-13: 9780520200494
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/21/1996
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.03w x 0.70d