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UNINA9910783060103321 |
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Autore |
Murphy Richard (Richard John) |
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Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity / / Richard Murphy [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
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1-107-11581-7 |
1-280-15353-9 |
0-511-11712-4 |
0-511-04018-0 |
0-511-14979-4 |
0-511-48318-X |
0-511-32454-5 |
0-511-05118-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Literature, culture, theory ; ; 32 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
Modernism (Literature) |
Expressionism in literature |
Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-313) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our |
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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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