2. Sensuous Maladies: The Construction of Italian Decadentismo

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword: After The Conquest of the Stars ix
5. Contributors xxv
6. Modernism in Italy: An Introduction 1
7. PART I. Modernism in Context
8. 1. Italy and Modernity: Peculiarities and Contradictions 35
9. PART II. Decadence and Aestheticism
10. 2. Sensuous Maladies: The Construction of Italian Decadentismo 65
11. 3. D'Annunzio, Duse, Wilde, Bernhardt: Author and Actress between Decadence and Modernity 86
12. 4. Omnes velut aqua dilabimur: Antonio Fogazzaro, The Saint, and Catholic Modernism 130
13. 5. Overcoming Aestheticism 167
14. 6 Transtextual Patterns: Guido Gozzano Between Epic and Elegy in ‘Goa: “La Dourada”’ 191
15. PART III. Avant-Garde
16. 7. Modernism in Florence: The Politics of Avant-Garde Culture in the Early Twentieth Century 221
17. 8. Back to the Future: Temporal Ambivalences in F.T. Marinetti's Writings 243
18. 9. Ungaretti, Reader of Futurism 267
19. 10. Of Thresholds and Boundaries: Luigi Pirandello between Modernity and Modernism 294
20. PART IV. The Return to Order: Metafisica, Novecentismo
21. 11. Modernism and the Quest for the Real: On Massimo Bontempelli's Minnie la Candida 309
22. 12. De Chirico's Heroes: The Victors of Modernity 351
23. 13. Gender, Identity, and the Return to Order . in the Early Works of Paola Masino 378
24. PART V. Towards the Postmodern
25. 14. Representing Repetition: Appropriation in de Chirico and After 403
26. Index 451