Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity / / Richard Murphy [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Murphy Richard (Richard John)
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 809/.911
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Modernism (Literature); Expressionism in literature; Postmodernism (Literature)
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-313) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Theorizing the avant-garde
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818551203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literature, culture, theory ; ; 32.