Theorizing the Avant-Garde by Richard Murphy
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.-
Paratexts
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Derrida and Autobiography
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Theories of Mimesis
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Chronoschisms
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Possible Worlds in Literary Theory
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Mikhail Bakhtin
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The Subject of Modernity
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Parody
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Ideology and Inscription
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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
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Preparing the Suzuki RM and PE for Competition
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Theory and the Novel
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The Practice of Theory
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The Poetics of Personification
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The Subject and the Text
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Kenneth Burke
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Onomatopoetics
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Critical Conditions
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Consequences of Enlightenment
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Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
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The Object of Literature
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Theorising Textual Subjects
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Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
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Singularities
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Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
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Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture
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Novels behind Glass
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Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
"..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
"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
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521632911 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521632919 |
| Title | Theorizing the Avant-Garde |
| Author | Richard Murphy |
| Series | Literature Culture Theory |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1999-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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