Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity / Richard Mu...
Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity / Richard Mu...
Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity / Richard Murphy.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N809.911/1
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English
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viii, 325 p. ; 23 cm.
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1. Theories of the avant-garde. Revisions of Burger's theory -- 2. Re-writing the discursive world: revolution and the expressionist avant-garde -- 3. Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism. Doblin and the avant-garde poetics of expressionist prose. Benn:...
Towards a poetics of postmodernism: simulation, parody and history. Lyotard's postmodern sublime and Habermas' "enlightenment project of modernity": modernism, mass culture and the avant-garde.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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England
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1999.
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"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, Lyot...
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Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity / Richard Murphy.
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Literature, culture, theory ; 32.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-313) and index.
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