Title & Author:

Neoavanguardia : Italian experimental literature and arts in the 1960s / edited by Paolo Chirumbolo, Mario Moroni, and Luca Somigli.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.

Description:

vi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Literature and arts in the 1960s : an introduction / Paolo Chirumbolo and Mario Moroni -- The cultural debate. Subverting literature : literary theory and critical discourse in the Italian Neoavanguardia / Francesco Muzzioli ; Neoavanguardia and postmodernism : revisiting the oscillations between innovation and tradition from 1963 to 2003 / Monica Jensen ; Parasurrealism and technological utopia : the project of Malebolge / Mario Moroni -- Revisiting literature. The "new" novel of the Neoavanguardia" / Silvia Contarini ; Revolution in flatland : Giorgio Manganelli's critique of the avant-garde / Florian Mussgnug ; The poetry of the Neoavanguardia and the materiality of language / John Picchione ; Language, gender and sexuality in the Italian Neoavanguardia / Lucia Re ; Giulia Niccolai : a wide-angle portrait / Rebecca West -- Beyond literature. Signs and designs : Sanguineti and Baj from Laborintus to The biggest art-book in the world / Paolo Chirumbolo ; Gruppo 63 and music : a complex relationship / Paolo Somigli ; Superstudio double-take : rescue operations in the realms of architecture / Laura Chiesa.
Includes some text in Italian.

Summary:

"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."--Pub. desc.

ISBN:

9780802099983
080209998X

Subject:

Gruppo 63.
Italian literature 20th century History and criticism.
Literature, Experimental History and criticism.
Arts Experimental methods.
Littérature italienne 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature expérimentale Histoire et critique.
Arts Méthodes expérimentales.
Italian literature.
Literature, Experimental.
Italienisch
Avantgardeliteratur
Experimentelle Literatur
Künste
Neoavantgarde
Kunst.
Italiensk experimentell litteratur.
Italiensk litteratur historia 1960-talet 2000-talet.
Modernism (litteratur) Italien.
Modernism (konst) Italien.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Moroni, Mario, 1955-
Somigli, Luca.
Chirumbolo, Paolo.
Toronto Italian studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302360
Call No.: BIB 248617
Status: Available