{"product_id":"the-historic-imaginary-9780802087645","title":"The Historic Imaginary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on both ritual and mass-visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy, \u003ci\u003eThe Historic Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e unveils how Italian Fascism sought to institutionalize a modernist culture of history. The study takes a new historicist and microhistorical approach to cultural-intellectual history, integrating theoretical tools of analysis acquired from visual-cultural studies, art history, linguistics, and reception theory in a sophisticated examination of visual modes of historical representation - from commemorations to monuments to exhibitions and mass-media - spanning the entire period of the Italian-fascist regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaudio Fogu argues that the fascist historic imaginary was intellectually rooted in the actualist philosophy of history elaborated by Giovanni Gentile, culturally grounded in Latin-Catholic rhetorical codes, and aimed at overcoming both Marxist and liberal conceptions of the relationship between historical agency, representation, and consciousness. The\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MY - University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534979694935,"sku":"9780802087645","price":59.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802087645.jpg?v=1755858427","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-historic-imaginary-9780802087645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}