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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murphy, Richard (Richard John)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Literature, culture, theory ; 32.
Temas:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Literature)
Expressionism in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Avant-garde (Esthétique)
Modernisme (Littérature)
Expressionnisme dans la littérature.
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Postmoderne
Kunst
Avantgardeliteratur
Literaturtheorie
Modernität
Expressionismus
Avantgarde
Avant-garde.
Theorieën.
Postmodernisme.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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