A test of powers : writings on criticism and literary institutions /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fortini, Franco, 1917-1994
Group Author: Toscano, Alberto, 1977
Published: Seagull Books,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Italian
Series: The Italian list
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Carrier Form: 460 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780857423351 (hardback) :
0857423355 (hardback)
Index Number: PN775
CLC: I106
Call Number: I106/F742
Contents: Translator's introduction: the labour of division -- Translator's acknowledgements -- Preface to the first edition (1965) -- Preface to the second edition (1969) -- The literary institution. Eroticism and literature -- A test of powers -- Clarifications -- Cunning as doves -- Literary institutions and the progress of the regime -- Two avant-gardes -- Avant-garde and mediation -- Written and spoken -- The condition of the guest. Radek's hands -- The writers' mandate and the end of anti-fascism -- In defence of the idiot -- Of some critics. Reading Spitzer -- Mimesis -- Deus absconditus -- Luk