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Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity

By Murphy , Richard John

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0-521-63291-9, 9780521632911, 9780511040184, 0511040180, 9780511117121, 0511117124, 9780511483189, 051148318X, 0-521-64869-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1929737 bytes)
Series
Literature culture theory 32
Pages
325\333
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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In Theorizing the Avant-Garde Richard Murphy mobilizes 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. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulations of the avant-garde 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, this interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity

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