| Description |
1 online resource (335 pages) |
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Literature, culture, theory |
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Literature, culture, theory.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Theories of the avant-garde; 2 Re-writing the discursive world: revolution and the expressionist avant-garde; 3 Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism; 4 The poetics of hysteria: expressionist drama and the melodramatic imagination; 5 Kafka's photograph of the imaginary. Dialogical interplay between realism and the fantastic. (The Metamorphosis); 6 Weimar silent film and expressionism: representational instability and oppositional discourse in The Cabinet ofƒ |
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7 Conclusion. Postmodernism and the avant-gardeBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Combining film and literature, this project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-313) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Modernism (Literature)
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Expressionism in literature.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Expressionism in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Littérature expérimentale.
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Littérature.
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20e siècle.
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Avant-garde (Art)
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Modernisme (Littérature)
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Expressionnisme.
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Postmodernisme (Littérature)
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Théorie littéraire.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953-
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Macksey, Richard, 1931-2019.
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| ISBN |
9780511051180 |
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0511051182 |
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0511149794 |
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9780511149795 |
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0511117124 |
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9780511117121 |
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1280153539 |
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9781280153532 |
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9780511483189 |
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051148318X |
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9780521632911 |
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0521632919 |
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9780521648691 |
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0521648696 |
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