Richard Murphy

Theorizing the Avant-Garde (eBook, PDF)

Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511035951
• Artikelnr.: 38193068

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.