Overview

The Italian neoavanguardia, a literary and artistic movement characterized by a strong push towards experimentation, playfulness, and new forms of language usage, was founded at the beginning of the 1960s by a group of poets, critics, artists, and composers. Although the neoavanguardia movement has been primarily defined and examined in a literary context, it is broadly discussed in this collection as also affecting other artistic forms such as the visual arts, music, and architecture. In examining this often controversial movement, Neoavanguardia's contributors include topics such as critical-theoretical debates, the crisis of literature as defined within the movement, and issues of gender in 1960s Italian art and literature. This important collection interrogates the arts as creative codes, their ability to question reality, and their capacity to survive. In so doing, it paves the way for future interdisciplinary investigations of this complex cultural formation.

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Author:   Paolo Chirumbolo ,  Mario Moroni ,  Luca Somigli
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780802099983

ISBN 10:   080209998
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   18 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Literature and the Arts in the 1960s PART ONE: The Cultural Debate Literary Theory and Critical Discourse in the Italian neoavanguardia Neoavanguardia and Postmodernism: Revisiting the Oscillations between Innovation and Tradition from 1963 to 2003 Parasurrealism and Technological Utopia: The Project of Malebolge PART TWO: Revisiting Literature The 'New' Novel of the neoavanguardia"" Revolution in Flatland: Giorgio Manganelli's Critique of the Avant-garde The Poetry of the neoavanguardia and the Materiality of Language Language, Gender and Sexuality in the Italian neoavanguardia Giulia Niccolai: A Wide-Angle Portrait PART THREE: Beyond Literature Signs and Designs: Sanguineti and Baj from Laborintus to The Biggest Art-Book in the World Neoavanguardia and Music Superstudio Double-Take: Rescue Operations in the Realms of Architecture."

Reviews

'This is an excellent collection of essays on a movement encompassing some of the most significant cultural phenomena of the second half of the twentieth century. From the new novel to experimental music, from poetry to architecture, combining reflections on gender and sexuality with philosophy and politics, Neoavanguardia brilliantly enlivens the study of Italian avant-garde experimentalism in an international context.'--John P. Welle, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame

Author Information

Paolo Chirumbolo is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Louisiana State University. Mario Moroni is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Modern Romance Languages and Literatures at SUNY Birmingham. Luca Somigli is an associate professor in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto.

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