`Neoavanguardia` – Italian Experimental Literature and Arts in the 1960s

'Neoavanguardia'Italian Experimental Literature and Arts in the 1960s\nAuthor(s): Paolo Chirumbolo, Mario Moroni, Luca Somigli\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802099983, 978-0802099983\nSynopsis\nThe Italian neoavanguardia, a literary and artistic movement characterized by a strong push towards experimentation, playfulness, and new forms of language usage, was founded at the beginning of the 1960s by a group of poets, critics, artists, and composers. Although the neoavanguardia movement has been primarily defined and examined in a literary context, it is broadly discussed in this collection as also affecting other artistic forms such as the visual arts, music, and architecture.\n\n 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 Ita.