Theorizing Modernisms

Essays in Critical Theory
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-00665-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 262 g

At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant position in cultural and critical theory, the contributors to this volume present a much needed corrective to the misleading images of modernism which have dominated recent debate.
Theorizing Modernisms includes an account of European modernism, and analysis of the work of Apollinaire and Aberti, Wyndham Lewis and Mike Johnson, and Kert Schwitters. Steve Giles provides a much needed overview of the relationship between modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernism and modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giles, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 THE PROBLEMATICS OF EUROPEAN MODERNISM 2 MACHINATIONS: SHOCK OF THE OLD, FEAR OF THE NEW—APOLLINAIRE AND ALBERTI 3 WYNDHAM LEWIS’S VORTICISM AND THE AESTHETICS OF CLOSURE 4 KURT MERZ SCHWITTERS: AESTHETICS, POLITICS AND THE NEGENTROPIC PRINCIPLE. AFTERWORD: AVANT-GARDE, MODERNISM, MODERNITY: A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Giles is a lecturer in German and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of The Problem of Action in Modern European Drama (1981).