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Title Modernism and the Avant-garde body in Spain and Italy / edited by Nicolás Fernández-Medina and Maria Truglio
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in comparative literature
Routledge studies in comparative literature.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; PART I The Fragmented Body: The Anxiety of Fulfilment; 1 A Return to the Body: On Fetishism and the Inscrutable Feminine in Ramón Gómez de la Serna's Senos; 2 But Who Is Playing This Game? Bontempelli's La scacchiera davanti allo specchio and Children's Literature; 3 Unreadable Bodies and Symbolic Violence in Antonio de Obregón's Hermes en la vía pública; PART II The Borderless Body: Charting the Corporeal and the Discursive
4 1922: Deterritorializing the Body: Beyond the Mind-Body Dualism in Ramón Gómez de la Serna's El secreto del Acueducto5 Possession Narratives, Partnering, and Massimo Bontempelli's Fascist Magic Realism; 6 Purity and Putrefaction: Salvador Dalí's Apparatus and Hand (1927); 7 Nature and the Madman: Mysticism and Modernism in Pirandello's Fiction; PART III The Discovered Body: Knowledge and the Constructs of Resistance; 8 The Gendered Body Politic of Maruja Mallo; 9 Women, Sexuality, Politics, and the Body in the Futurist Avant-Garde during the Great War
10 The Body of Venus: Eroticism and Maternality in José Díaz Fernández's La Venus mecánica (1929)11 Eco-Futurism? Some Thoughts on Nature, Matter, and Body in F.T. Marinetti; List of Contributors; Index
Summary This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a locus for various aesthetic and sociopolitical considerations and practices. In reimagining the nexus points where the embodied self and world intersect, the texts surveyed in this book not only shed light on issues such as authority, desire, fetishism, gender, patriarchy, politics, religion, sexuality, subjectivity, violence, and war during a period of unprecedented change, but also explore the complexities of aesthetic and epistemic rupture (and continuity) within Spanish and Italian modernisms. Building on contemporary scholarship in Modernist Studies and avant-garde criticism, this volume brings to light numerous cross-cultural touch points between Spain and Italy, and challenges the center/periphery frameworks of European cultural modernism. In linking disciplines, genres, --isms, and geographical spheres, the book provides new lenses through which to explore the narratives of modernist corporeality. Each contribution centers around the question of the body as it was actively being debated through the medium of poetic, literary, and artistic exchange, exploring the body in its materiality and form, in its sociopolitical representation, relation to Self, cultural formation, spatiality, desires, objectification, commercialization, and aesthetic functions. This comparative approach to Spanish and Italian avant-gardism offers readers an expanded view of the intersections of body and text, broadening the conversation in the larger fields of cultural modernism, European Avant-garde Studies, and Comparative Literature. -- From publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 29, 2016)
Subject Literature, Experimental -- Spain
Literature, Experimental -- Italy
Modernism (Literature) -- Spain
Modernism (Literature) -- Italy
Human body in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Human body in literature
Literature, Experimental
Modernism (Literature)
Italy
Spain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Fernández-Medina, Nicolás, editor
Truglio, Maria, editor
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