Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound - Couverture rigide

Leveque, James P

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781884439 ISBN 13 : 9781781884430

Editeur : Legenda, 2022

Synopsis

The avant-garde in the early-twentieth century planted its flag on the ruins of the day's pieties, with religion a particularly urgent target. Movements such as Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism often represented religion in blasphemous, prurient, or sacrilegious ways: but the invocation of spirituality and scripture were also indispensable to their transcendent, revelatory experiences. Examining the contemporaneous, and cross-national, careers in poetry and artistic propaganda of Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944), and Ezra Pound (1885-1972), James Leveque frames the early avant-garde as an attempt to rediscover the necessity of prophecy and apocalyptic thought. Biblical literature furnished a sense of legitimacy and distinction to these avant-garde writers by charging many of their works with themes of spiritual direction in a new rationalized and secularized century, allowing them to present themselves as preachers of the End Times or visionaries of a new heaven and a new earth.

James Leveque has taught literature at the University of Edinburgh, University of Dundee, and Edinburgh Napier University, and currently teaches at the City Literary Institute in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Legenda
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781884439
• ISBN 13: 9781781884430
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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