Section 2.1: Futurism: Creation and Technology
Required Reading
Marinetti's Zang Tuum Tuum
Read
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism by F. P. Marinetti, as well as Marinetti's
statement on language and writing: Destruction
of Syntax–Imagination without strings–Words-in-Freedom.
Browse through the other manifestos and resources on the Futurism:
Manifestos and Other Resources Web site. Take note of the ones you find most interesting.
Supplementary Reading
Explore other Web sites that are devoted to futurism in the
visual and verbal arts. For example, the
Italian
Futurist Book by Maurizio Scudiero has a short essay on the movement,
with thumbnail images of futurist posters, articles, and book covers. See
what else you can discover on this movement.
Section 2.2: Futurism: Poetic Forms
Supplementary Reading
Bookmark and browse this
Glossary
of Poetic Terms from Bob's Byway to remind yourself of the specific
vocabulary of poetic analysis. A general search on poetic terms will uncover
other sites of interest you may wish to bookmark and return to as you work
through poetic readings, and again when you prepare to write your essays.
