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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818638903321

Autore

Bru Sascha

Titolo

Democracy, law and the modernist avant-gardes : writing in the state of exception / / by Sascha Bru [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-7486-5193-4

1-282-62043-6

9786612620430

0-7486-4176-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

EC 5184

Disciplina

809.911

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature) - Europe

Literature, Experimental - Europe

Democracy - Europe

Politics and literature - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Taking writing to exception : by way of introduction -- The trauma of literature : a promenade through the archive on the avant-garde and politics -- The party and the book : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, futurism and amateur democracy -- The paper state : Paul van Ostaijen, expressionism and constitutional heterotopia -- The secret politician : Richard Huelsenbeck, Dadaism and the redemption of literature -- The law of literature : by way of conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book to look at the ties between European modernism and democracy in a cross-cultural manner.