Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound

The avant-garde in the early-twentieth century planted its flag on the ruins of the day's pieties, with...
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Author: James P. Leveque
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Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound by Leveque, James P.

Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound

$390.73

Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound

$390.73
Author: James P. Leveque
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 experiences. 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), James Leveque frames the early avant-garde as an attempt to rediscover the necessity of prophecy and apocalyptic thought. Biblical literature furnished a sense of legitimacy and distinction to these avant-garde writers by charging many of their works with themes of spiritual direction in a new rationalized and secularized century, allowing them to present themselves as preachers of the End Times or visionaries of a new heaven and a new earth.


James Leveque has taught literature at the University of Edinburgh, University of Dundee, and Edinburgh Napier University, and currently teaches at the City Literary Institute in London.



Author: James P. Leveque
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 04/25/2022
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781781884430

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