ISBN:
0415461561
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041546157X
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9780415461566
,
9780415461573
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 264 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Modernism and Theory : A Critical Debate
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Modernism (Aesthetics)
;
Modernism (Literature)
;
Modernism (Aesthetics)
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Modernism and Theory boldly asks what role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. The sections comprise expositions and debates on modernist topics by leading contributors, and the book concludes with an afterword from Fredric Jameson
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The missing link; Part I Theory's modernism: Concrete connections; 1 Rip the veil of the old vision across, and walk through the rent; Deleuze and his sources: Response to Anneleen Masschelein; 2 Modernism, postmodernism, and the two sublimes of surrealism; The two sublimes, fourth time around: Response to Roger Rothman; 3 "What true project has been lost?": Modern art and Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life; Disdained everyday fields: Response to Thomas S. Davis
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Time and its countermeasures: Modern messianisms in Woolf, Benjamin, and AgambenTime's exception: Response to Hilary Thompson; Part II Modernism's theory: Abstract affiliations; 5 The persistence of the old regime: Late modernist form in the postmodern period; In the time of theory, the timeliness of modernism: Response to Neil Levi; 6 Invisible times: Modernism as ruptural unity; More than a hint of desperation - historicizing modernism: Response to C. D. Blanton; 7 "This new evolution of art": Adorno's modernism as a re-orientation of aesthetics
Description / Table of Contents:
What's new? On Adorno and the modernist aesthetics of novelty: Response to Oleg Gelikman8 Fables of progression: Modernism, modernity, narrative; Modernism and the moment of defeat: Response to Andrew John Miller; Part III Forum; 9 Aesthetics; 10 Ethics; 11 Green; 12 Avant-garde; 13 Theory; Afterword; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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