Concepts of the world : the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910-1940 /

"This book delves into the interwar world as represented in the poetry, theater, prose, and art of French-speaking avant-garde writers and artists whose aspirations for a global audience transformed everything about their intellectual movements"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rentzou, Effi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2022.
Series:FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Subjects:
1900-1999
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Littérature française > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Cosmopolitisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Cosmopolitanism in literature
French literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The double world
  • A nationalist world : futurism, Apollinaire, and the nation
  • Messy internationalism : dada, anarchism, and Picabia's group portraits
  • Cosmopolitan peasants : the foreignness of the Avant-Garde
  • Monstrum Universale : surrealism and a new vision of humanism
  • World simulated : the surrealist exhibition as critique of the global.

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