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Author Cabiati, Alessandro, author

Title Baudelaire and the making of Italian modernity : from the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857-1912 / Alessandro Cabiati
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Series Palgrave studies in modern European literature
Palgrave studies in modern European literature.
Contents Chapter:1.Introducing Modernity: French, Italian, and Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter:2. Unpoetic Poetry and the Rise of Modernity: Science and Medicine in the Scapigliatura -- Chapter:3. Allegory and Modernity in the Scapigliatura.-Chapter:4. Sensual Sacredness and Sacred Sensuality: Love, Sex, and Religion in the Scapigliatura -- Chapter:5.Writing Analogy, Writing Modernity: The Scapigliatura and Baudelaires Correspondances Synaesthesia and Intoxicating Visions -- Chapter:6. From Organic to Inorganic Matter, From Spirit to Speed: Early Futurist Poetry and the Scapigliaturas Legacy -- Chapter:7. Concluding Modernity: Writing Analogy, Writing Avant-garde
Summary This book establishes the role of French writer Charles Baudelaire in the formation of paradigms of modernity in Italian poetry between 1857, the year of publication of Baudelaires highly influential collection Les Fleurs du Mal, and 1912, when the first anthology of Futurist poetry, I poeti futuristi, was published in Milan. It focuses primarily on Baudelaires influence on the poetry of the Scapigliatura, a long-underrated movement which in the 1860s introduced a thematic and formal modernity into Italian literature, paving the way for Futurism and the twentieth-century avant-garde. This monograph also investigates Baudelaires and the Scapigliaturas interrelated impacts on early Futurist poetry, demonstrating that Futurist poets turned to the works of Baudelaire and the Scapigliatura for inspiration on themes that were considered as distinctly unpoetic and therefore modern such as medical-anatomical examination, technological transformation, and abnormal sensuality. Alessandro Cabiati is a Marie Skodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and Brown University, USA, where he investigates the ways in which nineteenth-century literary fairy tales contributed to the cultural discourse on psychological deviance and abnormality, while also influencing medical debate. In recent years, he has undertaken research at Kings College London and at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Criticism and interpretation
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Influence
SUBJECT Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 fast
Subject Scapigliatura (Group)
SUBJECT Scapigliatura (Group) fast
Subject Futurism (Literary movement) -- Italy
Italian poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Futurism (Art) -- Italy
Futurism (Art)
Futurism (Literary movement)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Italian poetry
Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030920180
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