Synopses & Reviews
Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating considerations of the prose, visual art, poetry, and carefully crafted manifestos of Futurists from Russia to Italy, Perloff reveals the Moment's impulses and operations, tracing its echoes through the years to the work of "postmodern" figures like Roland Barthes. This updated edition, with its new preface, reexamines the Futurist Moment in the light of a new century, in which Futurist aesthetics seem to have steadily more to say to the present.
About the Author
Marjorie Perloff is professor of English emerita at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, Poetics in a New Key and Unoriginal Genius, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface 2003
Preface 1985
1. Profond Aujourd'hui
2. The Invention of Collage
3. Voilence and Precision:
The Manifesto as Art Form
4. The Word Set Free: Text and Image in the Russian Futurist Book
5. Exra Pound and "The Prose Tradition in Verse"
6. Deus ex Machina: Some Futurist Legacies
Notes
Index