Theorizing the Avant-Garde

(Part of the Literature, Culture, Theory Series)

by Richard Murphy

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521648696

ISBN13:9780521648691

Release Date:May 1999

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Postmodernism

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