200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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).
