Words Like Fire
Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound
James P. Leveque
Click cover to enlarge Booksellers & libraries: | Studies In Comparative Literature 50 Legenda
ISBN: 978-1-781884-43-0 (hardback) • RRP £75, $99, €85 ISBN: 978-1-781884-44-7 (paperback, 2022) ISBN: 978-1-781884-47-8 (JSTOR ebook) ModernFrenchItalianEnglishFictionPoetry The avant-garde in the early-twentieth century planted its flag on the ruins of the day’s pieties, with religion a particularly urgent target. Movements such as Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism often represented religion in blasphemous, prurient, or sacrilegious ways: but the invocation of spirituality and scripture were also indispensable to their transcendent, revelatory experience. Examining the contemporaneous, and cross-national, careers in poetry and artistic propaganda of Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944), and Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Leveque frames the early avant-garde as an attempt to rediscover the necessity of prophecy and apocalyptic thought. By engaging common themes of spiritual orientation, religion furnished a sense of legitimacy or distinction for writers presenting themselves as preachers of the End Times, or visionaries of 'new heavens and a new earth.' James Leveque is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
Bibliography entry: Leveque, James P., Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound, Studies In Comparative Literature, 50 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2021) First footnote reference: 35 James P. Leveque, Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound, Studies In Comparative Literature, 50 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2021), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Leveque, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Leveque, James P.. 2021. Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound, Studies In Comparative Literature, 50 (Cambridge: Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Leveque 2021: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Leveque 2021: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Words-Like-Fire www.mhra.org.uk/publications/sicl-50 |