1. Rivel-Azione : Poetry and Politics in Modern Italy
- Author
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Enrico Serventi Longhi, Roger Griffin, Enrico Serventi Longhi, and Roger Griffin
- Subjects
- Literary criticism, Conference papers and proceedings, Italian poetry--History and criticism--20th ce, Politics and literature--History--20th century, Modernism (Literature)--Italy--Congresses
- Abstract
The book explores the intimate connection between poetry and politics in modernity and, in particular, in liberal and fascist Italy. Through a historical and interdisciplinary approach, the essays focus on various fundamental passages of liberal system crisis: political poetry as an act of rebellion against the social and economic system; as a tool of disintegration of bourgeois morality and civilization; as a pillar of the building and consolidation of the fascist regime; as a central instrument of the myth of the'new man'. What emerges is a mosaic capable of enlightening the values and disvalues and the transformation of Italian radical and nationalist mindset, through the elimination of the boundaries between ‘matter'and ‘spirit'and between different disciplines: as in the liberal period, political poetry deals with new issues such as Time, Space, and the Body, so in the totalitarian Fascist culture integrates and contaminates other aesthetic forms: theatre, dance, architecture
- Published
- 2024