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

by Cinzia Sartini Blum

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520200497
• ISBN13: 9780520200494
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"