
Theorizing Modernisms
Essays in Critical Theory
Steve Giles(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 21. October 1993
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-415-07754-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
392 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-07754-5 (9780415077545)
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Person
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).
Content
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