Richard Murphy, Murphy Richard

Theorizing the Avant-Garde

Herausgeber: Cascardi, Anthony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenges conventional approaches to the avant-garde through a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary take on postmodernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780521648691
• ISBN-10: 0521648696
• Artikelnr.: 21195049

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theories of the avant-garde; 2. Revisions of Bürger's theory; 3.
Re-writing the discursive world: revolution and the expressionist
avant-garde; 4. Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and
the problem of realism; 5. Döblin and the avant-garde poetics of
expressionist prose; 6. Benn: modernity and the double bind of rationality;
7. Bakhtin and double voiced discourse: Döblin's 'The Murder of a
Buttercup' and the double bind; 8. The poetics of hysteria: expressionist
drama and the melodramatic imagination; 9. Kafka's photograph of the
imaginary: dialogical interplay between realism and the fantastic (the
metamorphosis); 10. Weimar silent film and expressionism: representational
instability and oppositional discourse in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; 11.
Framing the interpretation: the frame-narrative and the conflict of
discourses; 12. Towards a poetic of postmodernism: simulation, the sublime
and the expressionist avant-garde; 13. Lyotard's postmodern sublime and
Habermas's 'enlightenment project of modernity': modernism, mass culture
and the avant-garde; Bibliography.