Fascism, Aesthetics, and Culture / edited by Richard J. Golsan.

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Book
Language
English
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Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©1992.
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xviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    "Recent scandals and controversies in the academic world and in politics both in the U.S. and in Europe have made fascism an important contemporary topic. Thirteen essays offer a wide-ranging multidisciplinary reassessment of the impact of fascist ideology on the novels, poetry, criticism, and polemics of such major European and American writers as Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Marinetti, Céline, Montherlant, de Man, and Heidegger; on such artistic movements as Triunfalismo in Spain, Futurism in Italy, and Primitivism in Germany; and on film aesthetics and such cultural events as the 1932 Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution in Rome. The traditional assumption that fascism is an aberration antithetical to culture is no longer tenable. As a whole this volume raises fundamental questions about the relation of modernism and fascism and the attraction of fascism to a broad spectrum of intellectuals, artists, and writers." -- Back Cover.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Richard J. Golsan
    • Epic demonstrations : Fascist modernity and the 1932 exhibition of the Fascist revolution / Jeffrey T. Schnapp
    • Appendix : documents from the 1932 exhibition of the Fascist revolution
    • Fascist modernism, futurism, and post-modernity / Andrew Hewitt
    • German primitivism/primitive Germany : the case of Emil Nolde / Russell A. Berman
    • Gottfried Benn : a double life in uninhabitable regions / Walter A. Strauss
    • Wyndham Lewis's Fascist imagination and the fiction of paranoia / Reed Way Dasenbrock
    • Fascist of the final hour : Pound's Italian cantos / Robert Casillo
    • Appendix : Ezra Pound's cantos LXXII-LXXIII
    • Fascist models and literary subversion : two fictional modes in postwar Spain / Janet Perez
    • Henry de Montherlant : itinerary of an ambivalent Fascist / Richard J. Golsan
    • Fascist on film : the Brasillach and Bardeche Historie du cinema / Mary Jean Green
    • Style, subversion, modernity : Louis-Ferdinand Celine's anti-Semitic pamphlets / Rosemarie Scullion
    • If looks could kill : Louis Malle's portraits of collaboration / Lynn A. Hoggons
    • Scandal and aftereffect : Martin Heidegger in France / Steven Ungar
    • Paul de Man : the modernist as Fascist / Reed Way Dasenbrock.
    ISBN
    • 087451584X ((pa ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780874515848 ((pa ; : alk. paper))
    • 0874515785 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780874515787 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    91050815
    OCLC
    25553258
    International Article Number
    • 9780874515848
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