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Title:

Modernism and the avant-garde body in Spain and Italy / edited by Nicol©Łs Fern©Łndez-Medina and Maria Truglio.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxv, 262 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Modernism (Literature)--Spain.
Spanish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Italy.
Italian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Spain--History--20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Italy--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Fern©Łndez-Medina, Nicol©Łs editor.
Truglio, Maria, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface -- The Fragmented Body: The Anxiety of Fulfilment. A Return to the Body: On Fetishism and the Inscrutable Feminine in Ram©đn G©đmez de la Serna's Senos / Nicol©Łs Fern©Łndez-Medina -- But who is playing this game? Massimo Bontempelli's La scacchiera davanti allo specchio and Children's Literature / Maria Truglio -- Unreadable Bodies and Symbolic Violence in Antonio de Obreg©đn's Hermes en la v©Ưa p©ðblica / Susan Larson -- The Borderless Body: Charting the Corporeal and the Discursive. 1922: Deterritorializing the Body: Beyond the Mind-Body Dualism in Ram©đn G©đmez de la Serna's El secreto del Acueducto / John McCulloch -- Possession Narratives, Partnering, and Massimo Bontempelli's Fascist Magic Realism / Keala Jewell -- Purity and Putrefaction: Salvador Dal©Ư's Apparatus and Hand (1927) / Ara H. Merjian -- Nature and the Madman: Mysticism and Modernism in Pirandello's Fiction / Luca Somigli -- The Discovered Body: Knowledge and the Constructs of Resistance. The Gendered Body Politic of Maruja Mallo / Shirley Mangini -- Women, Sexuality, Politics, and the Body in the Futurist Avant-Garde during the Great War / Lucia Re -- The Body of Venus: Eroticism and Maternality in Jos©♭ D©Ưaz Fern©Łndez's La Venus mec©Łnica (1929) / Rebecca Bender -- Eco-futurism? Some Thoughts on Nature, Matter, and Body in F. T. Marinetti / Enrico Cesaretti.

Series:

Routledge studies in comparative literature ; 2

ISBN:

1138911437
9781138911437

OCLC:

(OCoLC)919342405

LCCN:

2016003265

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)