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Theorizing the avant-garde : = modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Theorizing the avant-garde :/ Richard Murphy.
Reminder of title:	modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity /
Author:	Murphy, Richard
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Literature, Modern - History and criticism - 20th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483189
ISBN:	9780511483189 (ebook)

Theorizing the avant-garde : = modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity /
Murphy, Richard

Theorizing the avant-garde :modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity /Richard Murphy. - 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Literature, culture, theory ;32. - Literature, culture, theory ;30..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises 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 and Bloch, especially their discussion of aesthetic autonomy, and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, 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.

ISBN: 9780511483189 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

837302
Literature, Modern
--History and criticism--20th century

LC Class. No.: PN771 / .M87 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.911

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