Fascist Modernism
Title | Fascist Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hewitt |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780804726979 |
Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology.
Modernism and Fascism
Title | Modernism and Fascism PDF eBook |
Author | R. Griffin |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 467 |
Release | 2007-05-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230596126 |
Intellectual debates surrounding modernity, modernism and fascism continue to be active and hotly contested. In this ambitious book, renowned expert on fascism Roger Griffin analyzes Western modernity and the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler and offers a pioneering new interpretation of the links between these apparently contradictory phenomena.
Thinking Fascism
Title | Thinking Fascism PDF eBook |
Author | Erin G. Carlston |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804741675 |
This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"?Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du rêve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)?that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology.
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy
Title | Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy PDF eBook |
Author | John Champagne |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0415528623 |
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Champagne seeks to evaluate how the aesthetic analysis of the artifacts explored offer a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of what world politics is, what is at stake when something - like masculinity - is rendered as being an element of world politics, and how such an understanding differs from more orthodox 'cultural' analyses common to international relations.
Modern Fascism
Title | Modern Fascism PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Edward Veith (Jr.) |
Publisher | Concordia Publishing House |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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With fascist ideology making a comeback today, the author proposes conservative Christian responses as the best antidote for overcoming them.
Fascist Modernism in Italy
Title | Fascist Modernism in Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Francesca Billiani |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2021-08-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1788317580 |
Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman' as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As they did so these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a modernist aesthetic – huge-scale experiments in modernism were funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Famous examples include Mussolini's New Rome at EUR, or the Stalinist apartment blocks built in urban Russia. Focusing largely on Mussolini's Italy, Francesca Billiani argues that modernity was intertwined irrecoverably with fascism – that too often modernist buildings, art and writings are seen as a purely cultural output, when in fact the principles of modernist aesthetics constitute and are constituted by the principles of fascism. The obsession with the creation of the 'new man' in art and in reality shows this synergy at work. This book is a key contribution to the field of twentieth century history – particularly in the study of fascism, while also appealing to students of art history and philosophy.
Sex Drives
Title | Sex Drives PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Frost |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501724258 |
Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts. How do we account for eroticized representations of fascism in anti-fascist literature, for sexual desire that escapes the bounds of politics?Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to undercurrents of enthrallment with tyrants, uniforms, and domination. She argues that the first generation of writers raised within psychoanalytic discourse found in fascism the libidinal unconscious through which to fantasize acts—including sadomasochism and homosexuality—not permitted in a democratic conception of sexuality without power relations. By delineating democracy's investment in a sexually transgressive fascism, an investment that persists to this day, Frost demonstrates how politics enters into fantasy. This provocative and closely-argued book offers both a fresh contribution to modernist literature and a theorization of fantasy.