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F. T. Marinetti's Experiments with Acoustic and Visual Poetry: A New Semiotic Approach

F. T. Marinetti's Experiments with Acoustic and Visual Poetry: A New Semiotic Approach <jats:p> The present paper identifies evidence of proto-semiotic thinking in Italian Futurist manifestoes and in Marinetti's experimental ‘words-in-freedom’ (parole in libertà). A case is made for approaching visual and acoustic modes of signification in Futurist poetry using Peircean semiotic theory. Readings of iconic and indexical sign-aspects explore the value of quasi-semiotic strategies as reflections of modernity and analyse their role in Futurist pro-war propaganda poetry. Particular attention is paid to semiotic aspects of the movement's ‘Typographical Revolution’, its strategies of codification and the rhetoric of self-signification. Peircean exegesis of various innovative effects throws light on the relationship between iconic and indexical features which earlier semiotic approaches fail to recognize. </jats:p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

F. T. Marinetti's Experiments with Acoustic and Visual Poetry: A New Semiotic Approach

White, John J.
Modernist Cultures , Volume 5 (2): 195 – Oct 1, 2010
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press 2010
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Articles; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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2041-1022
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10.3366/mod.2010.0103
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<jats:p> The present paper identifies evidence of proto-semiotic thinking in Italian Futurist manifestoes and in Marinetti's experimental ‘words-in-freedom’ (parole in libertà). A case is made for approaching visual and acoustic modes of signification in Futurist poetry using Peircean semiotic theory. Readings of iconic and indexical sign-aspects explore the value of quasi-semiotic strategies as reflections of modernity and analyse their role in Futurist pro-war propaganda poetry. Particular attention is paid to semiotic aspects of the movement's ‘Typographical Revolution’, its strategies of codification and the rhetoric of self-signification. Peircean exegesis of various innovative effects throws light on the relationship between iconic and indexical features which earlier semiotic approaches fail to recognize. </jats:p>

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Modernist Cultures – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Oct 1, 2010

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