The search for modern tragedy : aesthetic fascism in Italy and France / Mary Ann Frese Witt.
Material type: TextPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.Description: xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0801438373
- Italian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Italian drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
- Fascism -- Italy
- Fascism in literature
- French drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- French drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Fascism -- France
- PQ4145 .W58 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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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