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

Leveque, James P

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781884447 ISBN 13 : 9781781884447

Editeur : Legenda, 2024

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 experience. 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), Leveque frames the early avant-garde as an attempt to rediscover the necessity of prophecy and apocalyptic thought. By engaging common themes of spiritual orientation, religion furnished a sense of legitimacy or distinction for writers presenting themselves as preachers of the End Times, or visionaries of 'new heavens and a new earth.'

James Leveque is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Legenda
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781884447
• ISBN 13: 9781781884447
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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