James P. Leveque: Words Like Fire
Words Like Fire
Buch
- Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound
- Legenda, 10/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781781884447
- Bestellnummer: 12040179
- Umfang: 234 Seiten
- Gewicht: 412 g
- Maße: 244 x 170 mm
- Stärke: 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.10.2024
- Serie: Studies In Comparative Literature - Band 50
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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The avant-garde in the early-twentieth century planted its flag on the ruins of the day's pieties, with religion a particularly urgent target. Movements such as Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism often represented religion in blasphemous, prurient, or sacrilegious ways: but the invocation of spirituality and scripture were also indispensable to their transcendent, revelatory experience. Examining the contemporaneous, and cross-national, careers in poetry and artistic propaganda of Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944), and Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Leveque frames the early avant-garde as an attempt to rediscover the necessity of prophecy and apocalyptic thought. By engaging common themes of spiritual orientation, religion furnished a sense of legitimacy or distinction for writers presenting themselves as preachers of the End Times, or visionaries of 'new heavens and a new earth.'James Leveque is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
James P. Leveque
Words Like Fire
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