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Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity

Author: Richard Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series: Literature, culture, theory, 32.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Murphy
ISBN: 0521632919 9780521632911 0521648696 9780521648691
OCLC Number: 39281760
Description: viii, 325 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Theories of the avant-garde --
Re-writing the discursive world: revolution and the expressionist avant-garde --
Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism --
The poetics of hysteria: expressionist drama and the melodramatic imagination --
Kafka's photograph of the imaginary. Dialogical interplay between realism and the fantastic. (The metamorphosis) --
Weimar silent film and expressionism: representational instability and oppositional discourse in The cabinet of Dr. Caligari --
Conclusion. Postmodernism and the avant-garde.
Series Title: Literature, culture, theory, 32.
Responsibility: Richard Murphy.
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