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The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity

Author : Philip Nel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578064908
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity written by Philip Nel and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was there a sudden break in the world of art, literature, and music when modernism gave way to postmodernism? Philip Nel attacks the notion of tremendous and sudden change in artistic understanding and literary practice. Instead, in The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks he proposes that a series of small but far-reaching changes drew understanding from modernism to postmodernism. What bonds these two periods together? The constant agent of change, Nel argues, was the avant-garde. Tracking its influence on novelists, popular culture figures, and children's authors, this book re-evaluates how twentieth-century culture has been traditionally divided into "modern" and "postmodern." Suggesting that a modernism and postmodernism division prevents accurate evaluation of a work, Nel realigns our conceptions of twentieth-century literature, art, and music. Focusing on eight figures--Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Dr. Seuss, Donald Barthelme, Don DeLillo, Chris Van Allsburg, Laurie Anderson, and Leonard Cohen--as representative, The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks examines works along a spectrum of political involvement. This first book to analyze postmodern children's literature revives the radical Dr. Seuss by reading him alongside avant-garde artists. Nel argues that Chris Van Allsburg speaks the internet generation's vernacular, using a surrealist idiom to pose questions that linger beyond his picture books' final pages. The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks is a nuanced and wide-ranged re-reading of how postmodernism displays art's ability to imagine a better world. Philip Nel is an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide. He has been published in Children's Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature.

The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034909
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation that tracks American culture's shift from modernism into postmodernism

Guy Davenport

Author : Andre Furlani
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810123894
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Guy Davenport written by Andre Furlani and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Davenport (1927–2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century American master has finally found an apt critical reader. In this first sustained critical study of Davenport, Furlani elucidates the depths of Davenport's fiction and its poetic precedents, brings a rare understanding to the author's reworking of twentieth-century literature and intellectual history, and offers unusual insight into his compositional technique. Furlani explores key themes across the spectrum of Davenport's fiction: pastoral utopia; twentieth-century dystopia; sexual ethics; the mythologizing of childhood; the inseparability of the archaic and the modern; and a celebration of the union of sophia, eros, and poesia. Whether Davenport's view of art and the cosmos should be called "postmodern" is a question that Furlani considers closely--offering, finally, a new aesthetic for this American original who, in these pages, at last receives the thorough and meticulous attention he has long merited.

The American Avant-garde Tradition

Author : John Lowney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Avant-garde Tradition written by John Lowney and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book addresses how discourses of cultural nationalism and avant-gardism have structured the formation of American poetry canons. Examining William Carlos Williams's importance for postmodern poetry, it underscores how his literary reputation has figured prominently in recent reconsiderations of twentieth-century American literary history. The postmodern poets responding to Williams emphasize not only the cultural politics of constructing literary reputations, but also a more fundamental assumption that governs canon formation, the assumption that "poetic language" excludes speech types marking social difference." "Williams's commitment to experimentation and the destruction of traditional forms allies his poetics with the critical stance of the international avant-garde. His writing is especially sensitive, however, to linguistic registers of social difference in the United States. Focusing especially on Williams's early experimentation with poetic form, through Spring and All, but also on his critical and imaginative prose, such as In the American Grain, this book argues that two contingent rhetorical motives structure his response to cultural change: what Lowney calls the "poetics of descent" and the "poetics of dissent.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Fishing by Obstinate Isles

Author : Keith Tuma
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810116238
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Fishing by Obstinate Isles written by Keith Tuma and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text investigates modern British poetry and the death of that poetry in American critical circles. It explores the relations of British and American poetries, challenging reductive American views of British poetry.

Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern

Author : Mark Crinson
Publisher : Yc British Art
ISBN 13 : 9780300166187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern written by Mark Crinson and published by Yc British Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neo-avant-garde and postmodernism have long been understood in terms of their re-working of modernism and a narrative emphasizing rupture and new beginnings. This collection of essays discusses the work of architects and their associates.

Theorizing the Avant-Garde

Author : Richard John Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521648691
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing the Avant-Garde written by Richard John Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges conventional approaches to the avant-garde through a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary take on postmodernism.

The Avant-garde and Geopolitics in Latin America

Author : Fernando J. Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822972972
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Avant-garde and Geopolitics in Latin America written by Fernando J. Rosenberg and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s, with particular focus on Roberto Arlt and Mrio de Andrade. The movement developed on its own terms, in polemic dialogue with European movements, critiquing modernity itself, and developed a geopolitical awareness that bridged postcolonial and postmodern culture and continues its influence today.

The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde

Author : Therese Kaspersen Hadchity
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557539367
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde written by Therese Kaspersen Hadchity and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed by this avant-garde to repudiate the previous generation’s commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism. In three sections, it highlights the many converging factors, which have pushed this avant-garde to the forefront of the region’s contemporary scene, and places it all in the context of growing dissatisfaction with the post-colonial state and its cultural policies. This generational transition has manifested itself not only in a departure from “traditional” in favor of “new” media (i.e., installation, performance, and video rather than painting and sculpture), but also in the advancement of a “postnationalist postmodernism,” which reaches for diasporic and cosmopolitan frames of reference. Section one outlines the features of a preceding “Creole modernism” and explains the different guises of postnationalism in the region’s contemporary art. In section two, its momentum is connected to the proliferation of independent art spaces and transnational networks, which connect artists across and beyond the region and open up possibilities unavailable to earlier generations. Section three demonstrates the impact of this conceptual and organizational evolution on the selection and exhibition of Caribbean art in the metropole.

Poetry as Re-Reading

Author : Ming-Qian Ma
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810124831
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Poetry as Re-Reading written by Ming-Qian Ma and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in a detailed and compelling account of the philosophy guiding such a project, Ma's book traces a continuity of thought and practice through the very different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and John Cage and language poets Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and Charles Bernstein. His deft individual readings provide an opening into this notoriously difficult work, even as his larger critique reveals a new and clarifying perspective on American modernist and post-modernist avant-garde poetics. Ma shows how we cannot understand these poets according to the usual way of reading but must see how they deliberately use redundancy, unpredictability, and irrationality to undermine the meaning-oriented foundations of American modernism--and to force a new and different kind of reading."--Pub. desc.

The Chinese Postmodern

Author : Xiaobin Yang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472112418
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Postmodern written by Xiaobin Yang and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look into contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction and the problem of Chinese postmodernity

Five Faces of Modernity

Author : Matei Călinescu
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822307679
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Five Faces of Modernity written by Matei Călinescu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.

American Culture Between the Wars

Author : Walter B. Kalaidjian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231082785
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book American Culture Between the Wars written by Walter B. Kalaidjian and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the feminist, African-American and populist avant-garde that flourished in the era of American modernism.

Sigmar Polke

Author : Anne MacPhee
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853239116
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Sigmar Polke written by Anne MacPhee and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmar Polke is a highly exemplary Postmodernist and perhaps one the most indicative of a truly European avant-garde culture. This book presents a number of critiques which shed light on Polke’s otherwise bewildering display of stylistic references, apparent changes of allegiance and often unorthodox techniques of production.

Theorizing the Avant-Garde

Author : Richard Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521632911
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing the Avant-Garde written by Richard Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theorizing the Avant-Garde Richard Murphy mobilizes theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulations of the avant-garde and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, this interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity.

Ma Yuan

Author : Will Gatherer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781793609038
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ma Yuan written by Will Gatherer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ma Yuan: The Chinese Avant-Garde, Metafiction, and Post-Postmodernism in the works of Ma Yuan provides the most comprehensive study to date on one of China's most influential contemporary authors, Ma Yuan. By engaging in close readings of narratologically complex works of metafiction, the author offers a reappraisal of the role Ma Yuan played within the rise of postmodern fiction within China and offers new interpretive possibilities for the Chinese Avant-Garde movement of the 1980s through demonstrating that rather than being predominantly 'formalist word games' or 'narrative traps', Ma Yuan's works of metafiction functioned as Foucauldian 'heterotopias' which allowed for the creation of distinctly Post-modern and Post-socialist 'possible worlds'. This book also analyses Ma Yuan's recent post-2000 output and in doing so explores the shifting dynamics of literary self-reflexivity and the 'Post-postmodern' within the contemporary context of 'Xi Jinping era modernity'. This book argues that Ma Yuan's recent works display a distinct movement towards 'metamodern' aesthetics alongside a rising anthropocenic awareness and eco-consciousness which offer key insights into the post-postmodern condition within a Chinese context"--

Art Of The Postmodern Era

Author : Irving Sandler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429981821
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Art Of The Postmodern Era written by Irving Sandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandler discusses the major and minor artists and their works; movements, ideas, attitudes, and styles; and the social and cultural context of the period. He covers post-modernist art theory, the art market, and consumer society. American and European art and artists are included.