<i>Neoavanguardia</i> : Italian Experimental Literature and Arts in the 1960s

Neoavanguardia : Italian Experimental Literature and Arts in the 1960s

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The Italian neoavanguardia, a literary and artistic movement characterized by a strong push towards experimentation, playfulness, and new forms of language usage, was founded at the beginning of the 1960s by a group of poets, critics, artists, and composers. Although the neoavanguardiamovement has been primarily defined and examined in a literary context, it is broadly discussed in this collection as also affecting other artistic forms such as the visual arts, music, and architecture.

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. This important collection interrogates the arts as creative codes, their ability to question reality, and their capacity to survive. In so doing, it paves the way for future interdisciplinary investigations of this complex cultural formation.

ISBN

9780802099983

Publication Date

2010

Department

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

City

Toronto

<i>Neoavanguardia</i> : Italian Experimental Literature and Arts in the 1960s

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