'Neoavanguardia' : Italian Experimental Literature and Arts in The 1960s.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Literature and the Arts in the 1960s: An Introduction -- Part I: The Cultural Debate -- 1 Subverting Literature: Literary Theory and Critical Discourse in the Italian Neoavanguardia -- 2 Neoavanguardia and Postmodernism: Oscillations between Innovation and Tradition from 1963 to 2003 -- 3 Parasurrealism and Technological Utopia: The Project of Malebolge -- Part II: Revisiting Literature -- 4 The 'New' Novel of the Neoavanguardia -- 5 Revolution in Flatland: Giorgio Manganelli's Critique of the Avant-garde -- 6 The Poetry of the Neoavanguardia and the Materiality of Language -- 7 Language, Gender, and Sexuality in the Neoavanguardia -- 8 Giulia Niccolai: A Wide-Angle Portrait -- Part III: Beyond Literature -- 9 Signs and Designs: Sanguineti and Baj from Laborintus to The Biggest Art-Book in the World -- 10 Gruppo 63 and Music: A Complex Relationship -- 11 Superstudio Double-Take: Rescue Operations in the Realms of Architecture -- Contributors.
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.