Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era ofepimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty years ago for “the new Millennium”, in this acclaimed book Emmanuel Bouju identifies six new values for literature in the twenty-first century: Superficiality, Secrecy, Energy, Acceleration, Credit, and Follow Through. Based on the principal meanings of the Ancient Greek prefixepi– surface, contact, origin, extension, duration, authority, and finality – these values represent six different ways of relating to the legacy of modernist...
Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era ofepimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty ...
This book establishes the role of French writer Charles Baudelaire in the formation of paradigms of modernity in Italian poetry between 1857, the year of publication of Baudelaire’s highly influential collectionLes Fleurs du Mal, and 1912, when the first anthology of Futurist poetry,I poeti futuristi, was published in Milan. It focuses primarily on Baudelaire’s influence on the poetry of the Scapigliatura, a long-underrated movement which in the 1860s introduced a thematic and formal modernity into Italian literature, paving the way for Futurism and the twentieth-century avant-garde....
This book establishes the role of French writer Charles Baudelaire in the formation of paradigms of modernity in Italian poetry between 1857, the year...