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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      April 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511483189
      9780521632911
      9780521648691
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483189
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 336 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 336 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Art, Literary Theory, Western Art
      Series:
      Literature, Culture, Theory (32)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Art, Literary Theory, Western Art
    Series:
    Literature, Culture, Theory (32)
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    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.

    Reviews

    "...original and fascinating..." Journal of English and Germanic Philology

    "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

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