The New Avant-Garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices

by John Picchione

The debate on literature and the arts provoked by the Italian neoavant-garde ( neoavanguardia) is undoubtedly one of the most animated and controversial the country has witnessed from World War II to the present. Comprising the period between the late 1950s and the late 1960s, the phenomenon of the neoavanguardia involved key writers, critics, and artists, both as insiders - Sanguineti, Balestrini, Guglielmi, Eco, and others - and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802089941
• ISBN13: 9780802089946
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher