| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 325 pages). |
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Literature, culture, theory ; 32 |
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Literature, culture, theory ; 32.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-313) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Theories of the avant-garde -- Re-writing the discursive world: revolution and the expressionist avant-garde -- Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism -- The poetics of hysteria: expressionist drama and the melodramatic imagination -- Kafka's photograph of the imaginary. Dialogical interplay between realism and the fantastic. (The metamorphosis) -- Weimar silent film and expressionism: representational instability and oppositional discourse in The cabinet of Dr. Caligari -- Conclusion. Postmodernism and the avant-garde. |
| Summary |
In Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity, Richard Murphy mobilizes theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde. He assesses the importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulation of the avant-garde in Lukacs, Bloch and Burger, especially their discussion of aesthetic autonomy, and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. |
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Combining close textual readings of a wide range of works of literature as well as films, it draws on a rich array of critical theories, such as those of Bakhtin, Todorov, MacCabe, Belsey and Raymond Williams. This interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in modernist and avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century, and provides a critical rethinking of the present-day controversy regarding postmodernity. |
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Modernism (Literature)
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Expressionism in literature.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Avant-garde.
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Theorieën.
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Postmodernisme.
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Postmoderne.
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Avantgarde.
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Kunst.
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Avantgardeliteratur.
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Literaturtheorie.
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Modernität.
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Expressionismus.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murphy, Richard (Richard John). Theorizing the avant-garde. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521632919 0521648696 (DLC) 98008366 (OCoLC)39281760 |
| ISBN |
0511040180 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511040184 (electronic bk.) |
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0511117124 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511117121 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511483189 (electronic bk.) |
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051148318X (electronic bk.) |
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