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Literary Criticism Italian

Italian Modernism

Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde

edited by Luca Somigli & Mario Moroni

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Dec 2004
Category
Italian, Italy, 20th Century, Social History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802088284
    Publish Date
    Dec 2004
    List Price
    $98.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802086020
    Publish Date
    Dec 2004
    List Price
    $71.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442656109
    Publish Date
    Dec 2004
    List Price
    $57.00

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Italian Modernism was written in response to the need for an historiographic and theoretical reconsideration of the concepts of Decadentismo and the avant-garde within the Italian critical tradition. Focussing on the confrontation between these concepts and the broader notion of international modernism, the essays in this important collection seek to understand this complex phase of literary and artistic practices as a response to the epistemes of philosophical and scientific modernity at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first three decades of the twentieth.

Intellectually provocative, this collection is the first attempt in the field of Italian Studies at a comprehensive account of Italian literary modernism. Each contributor documents how previous critical categories, employed to account for the literary, artistic, and cultural experiences of the period, have provided only partial and inadequate descriptions, preventing a fuller understanding of the complexities and the interrelations among the cultural phenomena of the time.

About the authors

Luca Somigli is an associate professor in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto.

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Mario Moroni is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Modern Romance Languages and Literatures at SUNY Birmingham.

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