Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license “Francesca Billiani and Laura Pennacchietti draw brilliantly and with precision the evolution of the new architecture and of the national novel (with insights on translations of international novels), who
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Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
Francesca Billiani • Laura Pennacchietti
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
Francesca Billiani School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester Manchester, UK
Laura Pennacchietti School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester Manchester, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-19427-7 ISBN 978-3-030-19428-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19428-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. This book is an open access publication. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Joaquin Torres Garcia - Catedral Constructiva (1931). Mariano Garcia / Alamy Stock Photo; all rights reserved, used with permission. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Grazie Alistair, grazie Georgios
Preface
The Book and Its Designs This book forms part of a wider research project entitled, Modernism, Modernization, and the Arts under European Dictatorships, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Drawing on a wide-ranging set of modernist journals and artefacts—spanning public building, films, theatre plays, artworks and novels—this research project explored how the Italian Fascist regime’s participation in an aesthetic movement (modernism) and in its transformation into a social phenomenon (modernization) created a disti
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