Theorizing the avant-garde : modernism, expressionism, and the problem of postmodernity

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• 1. Theories of the avant-garde = 1
• Introduction = 1
• Revisions of B$$\ddot u$$rger's theory = 26
• 2. Re-writing the discursive world : revolution and the expressionist avant-garde = 49
• 3. Counter-discourses of the avant-garde : Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism = 74
• D$$\ddot o$$blin and the avant-garde poetics of expressionist prose = 74
• Benn : modernity and the double bind of rationality = 98
• Bakhtin and double-voiced discourse : D$$\ddot o$$blins ' The Murder of a Buttercup' and the double bind = 114
• 4. The poetics of hysteria : expressionist drama and the melodramatic imagination = 142
• 5. Kafka's photograph of the imaginary. Dialogical interplay between realism and the fantastic. (The Metamorphosis) = 180
• 6. Weimar silent film and expressionism : representational instability and oppositional discourse in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari = 202
• Carnival desire : representation and discourse = 202
• Framing the interpretation : the frame-narrative and the conflict of discourses = 230
• 7. Conclusion. Postmodernism and the avant-garde
• Towards a poetics of postmodernism : simulation, parody and history = 251
• Lyotard's postmodern sublime and Habermas' "enlightenment project of modernity" : modernism, mass culture and the avant-garde = 273
• Bibliography = 300
• Index = 314