This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to l

This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to l

This volume represents a rereading of modernism and the modernist canon from a double distance: geographical and temporal. It is a revision not only from the pe

The blending of people and living machines is a central element in the futurist "reconstruction of the universe." However, prior to the futurist break, a group

The concept of vital force – the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature – has proved a source of endless fascination