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THEORIZING THE AVANT-GARDE
MODERNISM, EXPRESSIONISM, AND THE PROBLEM OF POSTMODERNITY |
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Richard Murphy, Anthony J. Cascardi, Richard A. Macksey |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521632919 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521632911 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 April, 1999 |
| Series: |
Literature, Culture, Theory No.32 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Challenges conventional approaches to the avant-garde through a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary take on postmodernism. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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