The search for modern tragedy
The search for modern tragedy: aesthetic fascism in Italy and France Mary Ann Frese Witt
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
ISBN: 0801438373
DDC: 842.0512090912
LCC: PQ4145
Edition: (cloth : acid-free paper)
Summary:
"The attempt to apply an aesthetic or literary approach to fascism
remains controversial. In The Search for Modern Tragedy, Mary Ann
Frese Witt explores the work of a group of European writers and
artists who came to fascism by way of aesthetics. In Italy and
France, she maintains, an ideological aesthetic of "Mediterranean"
fascism developed to a large extent independently of German Nazism.
Witt's study of the relationship between fascism and modern tragedy
encompasses theoretical writing on tragedy and tragedies by key
authors, including Luigi Pirandello, Henry de Montherlant, and Jean
Anouilh. She looks at these tragedies in the context of their
reception under fascism in Italy and in Vichy France."--BOOK JACKET.
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