{"product_id":"the-quiet-avant-garde-crepuscular-poetry-and-the-twilight-of-modern-humanism-hardback-9781487505066","title":"The Quiet Avant‐Garde; Crepuscular Poetry and the Twilight of Modern Humanism (Hardback) 9781487505066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Quiet Avant‐Garde\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCrepuscular Poetry and the Twilight of Modern Humanism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDanila Cannamela (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487505066\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe blending of people and living machines is a central element in the futurist \"reconstruction of the universe.\" However, prior to the futurist break, a group of early-twentieth-century poets, later dubbed \u003ci\u003ecrepuscolari\u003c\/i\u003e (crepusculars), had already begun an attack against the dominant cultural system, using their poetry as the locus in which useless little objects clashed with the traditional poetry of human greatness and stylistic perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e draws from a number of twenty-first-century theories – vital materialism, object-oriented ontology, and environmental humanities – as well as Bruno Latour\u0026amp;#x2019;s criticism of modernity to illustrate how the crepuscular movement sabotaged the modern mindset and launched the counter-discourse of the Italian avant-garde by blurring the line dividing people from \"things.\" This liminal poetics, at the crossroad of tradition, modernism, and the avant-garde, acted as the initiator of the ethical and environmental transition from a universe subjected to humans to human-thing co-agency. This book proposes a contemporary reading of Italian twentieth-century movements and offers a foothold for scholars outside Italian studies to access authors who are still unexplored in North American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction - Poetry at the Twilight\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A Matter of Things: Modernity, Modernism, Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003e2. The Avant-Garde is Made of Useless Objects \u003cbr\u003e3. Being a Living Thing: Toward a New Notion of Body\u003cbr\u003e4. Love and the Grand Solidarity of Sound \u003cbr\u003e5. The Avant-Garde Immersive Onto-Cognition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595469975832,"sku":"9781487505066","price":47.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-quiet-avant-garde-crepuscular-poetry-and-the-twilight-of-modern-humanism-hardback-9781487505066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}