Fictions of Appetite: Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature

by Enrico Cesaretti

Investigates the recurrence and aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in works by F.T. Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino and Luigi Pirandello, published 1905-1939, revisiting these texts under the 'modernist' label, which has traditionally been shunned by the Italian critical establishment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034309716
• ISBN13: 9783034309714
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"