Question

In this essay, the author recounts meeting a black soldier who shows him “the marvels of Dick Tracy and Li’l Abner.” This essay mentions an artist who “wanted to kill” the moonlight who was appointed to a position “which treated moonlight with great respect.” This essay uses Wittgenstein’s family resemblance (15[1])to analyze the decreasing commonalities of abc, (15[1])bcd, cde, and def. (15[1])This essay notes how the “ersatz phallic exercise” of “[playing] with weapons” is a tendency of an archetypal (*) hero who is “impatient to die.” This essay calls Gabriele D’Annunzio (10[1])“a dandy (10[1])who in Germany or in Russia would have been sent to the firing squad.” Common properties of this essay’s title system (10[1])include “selective (10[1]-5[1])populism,” (10[2]-5[1])“action for action’s (10[1])sake,” (10[1])and a “cult of tradition.” (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, (-5[1])“Fourteen Ways of Looking (10[1])at a Blackshirt” (10[1]-5[1])is the subtitle (0[1])of what essay by Umberto (-5[1])Eco (10[2])analyzing a political system? ■END■ (10[5]0[6])

ANSWER: Ur-Fascism” [or “Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt”; or “Il fascismo eterno”; or “Ur-Fascismo”] (The artist is Filippo Marinetti.)
<Literature - European Literature - Misc Literature>
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