{"product_id":"theorizing-the-avant-garde-modernism-expressionism-and-the-problem-of-postmodernity-hardback-9780521632911","title":"Theorizing the Avant-Garde; Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity (Hardback) 9780521632911","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheorizing the Avant-Garde\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChallenges conventional approaches to the avant-garde through a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary take on postmodernism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Murphy (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521632911, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 April 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.58 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Murphy's book nevertheless makes an entirely persuasive and superbly documented case for the continuing impact of the historical avant-garde on the culture of postmodernity.\"   College Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Theories of the avant-garde\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revisions of Bürger's theory\u003cbr\u003e 3. Re-writing the discursive world: revolution and the expressionist avant-garde\u003cbr\u003e 4. Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Döblin and the avant-garde poetics of expressionist prose\u003cbr\u003e 6. Benn: modernity and the double bind of rationality\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bakhtin and double voiced discourse: Döblin's 'The Murder of a Buttercup' and the double bind\u003cbr\u003e 8. The poetics of hysteria: expressionist drama and the melodramatic imagination\u003cbr\u003e 9. Kafka's photograph of the imaginary: dialogical interplay between realism and the fantastic (the metamorphosis)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Weimar silent film and expressionism: representational instability and oppositional discourse in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari\u003cbr\u003e 11. Framing the interpretation: the frame-narrative and the conflict of discourses\u003cbr\u003e 12. Towards a poetic of postmodernism: simulation, the sublime and the expressionist avant-garde\u003cbr\u003e 13. Lyotard's postmodern sublime and Habermas's 'enlightenment project of modernity': modernism, mass culture and the  avant-garde\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006118383896,"sku":"9780521632911","price":75.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521632911i_472e0109-42d0-4520-9f9a-287f78805eba.jpg?v=1691379260","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/theorizing-the-avant-garde-modernism-expressionism-and-the-problem-of-postmodernity-hardback-9780521632911","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}