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Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Literature, culture, theory ;
32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-313) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511040180 9780511040184 0511117124 9780511117121 9780511483189 051148318X 1107115817 9781107115811 1280153539 9781280153532 0511149794 9780511149795 0511324545 9780511324543 0511051182 9780511051180 |