Money and modernism
The rise of a theme in early 20th-century Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9817842 |
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| Authors | Mimmo Cangiano (Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 591-607 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0014585819887356 |
| OpenAlex | W2987390443 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The primary purpose of this article is to examine how the theme of money developed in the work of the key early 20th-century Italian modernist writers Giovanni Papini, Aldo Palazzeschi, Giovanni Boine, and Carlo Michelstaedter. It also studies the connection between the theme of money and two central concepts in modernist literature: the crisis in the concept of objectivity, and the interpretation of reality as a continuous flow that rejects every possible conceptualization. I argue that money was a metaphor for the crisis of objective truth, a symbol for an existence that had lost all perspective from which to judge and order reality
Art · Conceptualization · Emptiness · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Metaphor · Modernism (music · Objectivity (philosophy · Symbol (formal · Theme (computing · Theology · Historical and Environmental Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Italian Literature and Culture · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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