Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Theories of the avant-garde
- 2 Re-writing the discursive world: revolution and the expressionist avant-garde
- 3 Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism
- 4 The poetics of hysteria: expressionist drama and the melodramatic imagination
- 5 Kafka's photograph of the imaginary. Dialogical interplay between realism and the fantastic. (The Metamorphosis)
- 6 Weimar silent film and expressionism: representational instability and oppositional discourse in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- 7 Conclusion. Postmodernism and the avant-garde
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Theories of the avant-garde
- 2 Re-writing the discursive world: revolution and the expressionist avant-garde
- 3 Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism
- 4 The poetics of hysteria: expressionist drama and the melodramatic imagination
- 5 Kafka's photograph of the imaginary. Dialogical interplay between realism and the fantastic. (The Metamorphosis)
- 6 Weimar silent film and expressionism: representational instability and oppositional discourse in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- 7 Conclusion. Postmodernism and the avant-garde
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Theorizing the Avant-GardeModernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity, pp. 300 - 313Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999