Neoavanguardia : Italian experimental literature and arts in the 1960s / edited by Paolo Chirumbolo, Mario Moroni, and Luca Somigli.

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In examining this often controversial movement, Neoavanguardia's contributors include topics such as critical-theoretical debates, the crisis of literature as defined within the movement, and issues of gender in 1960s Italian art and literature.

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Although it raises theoretical concerns that apply to other periods of innovation, this volume is devoted to the Italian literary and artistic movement Gruppo 63, born in the 1960s, and so will serve primarily those who study changes in form and content initiated by avant-garde movements and those interested in Italian fiction and poetry after neorealism. Most of the essays respond to literary experimentation: nuovi romanzi by Paolo Volponi, Raffaele La Capria, Edoardo Sanguineti, Alberto Arbasino, Nanni Balestrini, and Giorgio Manganelli and the poetry in I novissimi, including that of Sanguineti, Balestrini, and Antonio Porta. One essay defines the "male homosocial dynamic" of the neoavanguardia, and another focuses on artistic contributions made by women, for example, Giulia Niccolai. The three final contributions explore, respectively, the relationship between painting and poetry (Sanguineti and Enrico Baj), Gruppo 63 and musical experimentation (Sanguineti and Luciano Berio), and avant-garde and radical architecture as practiced by Superstudio, which was founded in Florence in 1966. Part of a series devoted to Italian studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers only. S. Vander Closter Rhode Island School of Design