Literature Politics And The English Avant Garde

Author : Paul Peppis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521662389

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Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde by Paul Peppis Pdf

Accounts of the 'historical avant-garde' and of 'high modernism' often celebrate the former for its revolutionary aesthetics or denigrate the latter for its 'proto-fascist' politics. In Literature, Politics and the English Avant-Garde, Paul Peppis shows how neither interpretation explains the writings of avant-gardists in early twentieth-century England. Peppis reads texts by writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Dora Marsden, and Ezra Pound alongside English political discourse between the death of Victoria and the end of the Great War. He traces the impact of nation and empire on the avant-garde, arguing that Vorticism, England's foremost avant-garde movement, used nationalism to advance literature and avant-garde literature to advance empire. Peppis's study demonstrates that these ambitions were enabled by a period conception of nationality as an essence and construct. By recovering these neglected aspects of avant-garde politics, Peppis's book opens important avenues for assessing modernist politics after the war.

Author : Sascha Bru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 074863925X

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Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-gardes by Sascha Bru Pdf

This book looks at the ties between European modernism and democracy in a cross-cultural manner. Focusing on the continental avant-gardes of the 1910s and 1920s, Sascha Bru's original and provocative book fundamentally revises our understanding of modernism's cultural and poltical history.

Author : Marc James Leger
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780990514

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Brave New Avant Garde by Marc James Leger Pdf

Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? With this it asks the related question, echoing Alain Badiou: must the avant garde hypothesis be abandoned? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to postmodern post-politics and the view that radical practice has no other future than its reduction to the workings of the free market in the form of the "simple process of cultural production" or to variations on the cultural politics of representation. Today's avant garde, formed in the wake of the end of the Soviet Union and the rise of the anti-globalization movement, represents a counter-power that rejects the inevitability of capitalist integration. The way out for artists in today's world of creative industries is defined in these pages as a psychoanalytically informed sinthomeopathic practice, a critical identification with prevailing conditions of production that avoids the surplus enjoyment of the ideology of postmodern pluralism. ,

Author : Faith Binckes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199252527

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Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-garde by Faith Binckes Pdf

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 2000.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401202527

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The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940) by Anonim Pdf

In 1906, for the first time in his life, F.T. Marinetti connected the term ‘avant-garde’ with the idea of the future, thus paving the way for what is now commonly called the ‘modernist’ or ‘historical avant-garde’. Since 1906 the ties between the early twentieth-century European aesthetic vanguard and politics have been a matter of debate. With a century gone by, The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde takes stock of this debate. Opening with a critical introduction to the vast research archive on the subject, this book proposes to view the avant-garde as a political force in its own right that may have produced solutions to problems irresolvable within its democratic political constellation. In a series of essays that combine close readings of texts and plastic works with a thorough knowledge of their political context, the book looks at avant-garde works as media producing political thought and experience. Covering the canonised avant-garde movements of Futurism, Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism, but also focussing on the avant-garde in Europe’s geographical outskirts, this book will appeal to all those interested in the modernist avant-garde.

Author : Toby Foshay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 077350916X

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Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde by Toby Foshay Pdf

It has always been difficult to determine Wyndham Lewis's position within the Modernist movement. Despite his status as one of the "big five" modernists -- along with W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce -- Lewis is the least read and least understood of significant modern English writers. At once both modernist and anti-modernist -- Lewis was a founder, before the First World War, of Vorticism and a critic, after the war, of what he considered modernism's sell-out to the art establishment -- he has remained the most obscure and the least easily categorized of the canonical modernists.

Author : Simon Shepherd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000812985

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The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900-1925 by Simon Shepherd Pdf

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early twentieth-century English theatre in a strikingly new light. It fluently describes an intensity of innovation and experiment that together made the Edwardian theatre rather more radical, and rather more queer, than we’ve ever thought. Where the majority of writing on the early twentieth-century theatrical avant-garde is concerned with European movements and experiments, English activity of the period is often seen as parochial and conservative – mainly realism and issues-based drama. This book presents a new model of how avant-gardes might work; a model based not on masculine individualism but on communal inclusion. In describing this fascinating material, the author introduces us to many new figures and shows familiar ones in different ways: there’s Florence Farr, independent woman; Bob Trevelyan, radical pacifist and music drama pioneer; Granville Barker doing fairy plays while de-dramatising drama; Laurence Housman, socialist, homosexual, scripting St Francis; and the oddly modern J.M. Barrie. Together they made theatre practices rich in their diversity but consistent in their attempt to be new, producing a theatrical avant-garde unlike any other. This is a vital and indispensable new study for scholars and students of early twentieth-century theatre in England and beyond.

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 3823341715

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Literary History - Cultural History by Herbert Grabes Pdf

Author : Josephine M. Guy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015021843605

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The British Avant-garde by Josephine M. Guy Pdf

Author : Tom Villis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857716071

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Reaction and the Avant-Garde by Tom Villis Pdf

"Reaction and the Avant-Garde" illuminates a vital facet of right-wing thought in the first decades of the century, which had a powerful hold on Europe's intellectual elite. Prominent literary figures, such as Ezra Pound, Hilaire Belloc and the Chestertons, led a revolt against liberal parliamentary democracy in Britain. This group despised parliaments as representing and embodying a 'nation'. Villis examines the literary works, private papers, correspondence and memoirs of the leaders of this anti-Semitic, anti-modern, anti-women's rights movement that formed the intellectual underpinning of European fascism.

Author : Steven S. Lee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231540117

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The Ethnic Avant-Garde by Steven S. Lee Pdf

During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called "the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter the West. Shining rare light on these efforts, The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the parameters of an undervalued "ethnic avant-garde." These writers and artists cohered around distinct forms that mirrored Soviet techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption. They orbited interwar Moscow, where the international avant-garde converged with the Communist International. The book explores Vladimir Mayakovsky's 1925 visit to New York City via Cuba and Mexico, during which he wrote Russian-language poetry in an "Afro-Cuban" voice; Langston Hughes's translations of these poems while in Moscow, which he visited to assist on a Soviet film about African American life; a futurist play condemning Western imperialism in China, which became Broadway's first major production to feature a predominantly Asian American cast; and efforts to imagine the Bolshevik Revolution as Jewish messianic arrest, followed by the slow political disenchantment of the New York Intellectuals. Through an absorbing collage of cross-ethnic encounters that also include Herbert Biberman, Sergei Eisenstein, Paul Robeson, and Vladimir Tatlin, this work remaps global modernism along minority and Soviet-centered lines, further advancing the avant-garde project of seeing the world anew.

Author : Eric B White
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748681594

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Transatlantic Avant-Gardes by Eric B White Pdf

A revisionary account of the evolution of twentieth-century modernism, concentrating on expressions of cultural localism in the modernist transatlantic.

Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521661110

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Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel by Pericles Lewis Pdf

This study, first published in 2000, examines the impact of nationalist political thought on the modern novel.

Author : Alex Houen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191541988

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Terrorism and Modern Literature by Alex Houen Pdf

Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they have also been concerns for many literary writers. This book is the first extensive study of modern literature's engagement with terrorism. Ranging from the 1880s to the 1980s, the terrorism examined is as diverse as the literary writings on it: chapters include discussions of Joseph Conrad's novels on Anarchism and Russian Nihilism; Wyndham Lewis's avant-garde responses to Syndicalism and the militant Suffragettes; Ezra Pound's poetic entanglement with Segregationist violence; Walter Abish's fictions about West German urban guerrillas; and Seamus Heaney's and Ciaran Carson's poems on the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland. In each instance, Alex Houen explores how the literary writer figures clashes or collusions between terrorist violence and discursive performativity. What is revealed is that writing on terrorism has frequently involved refiguring the force of literature itself. In terrorism studies the cultural impact of terrorism has often been accounted for with rigid, structural theories of its discursive roots. But what about the performative effects of violence on discourse? Addressing the issue of this mutual contagion, Terrorism and Modern Literature shows that the mediation and effects of terrorism have been historically variable. Referring to a variety of sources in addition to the literature—newspaper and journal articles, legislation, letters, manifestos—the book shows how terrorism and the literature on it have been embroiled in wider cultural fields. The result is not just a timely intervention in debates about terrorism's performativity. Drawing on literary/critical theory and philosophy, it is also a major contribution to debates about the historical and political dimensions of modernist and postmodernist literary practices.

Author : Jean-Thomas Tremblay,Andrew Strombeck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438485171

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Avant-Gardes in Crisis by Jean-Thomas Tremblay,Andrew Strombeck Pdf

Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and social crises and reveals a crisis of confidence regarding resistance's very possibility. Specifically, this collection casts contemporary avant-gardes as a reaction to a crisis in the reproduction of life that accelerated in the 1970s—a crisis that encompasses living-wage rarity, deadly epidemics, and other aspects of an uneven management of vitality indexed by race, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability. The contributors collectively argue that a minoritarian concept of the avant-garde, one attuned to uneven patterns of resource depletion and infrastructural failure (broadly conceived), clarifies the interplay between art and politics as it has played out, for instance, in discussions of art's autonomy or institutionality. Writ large, this book seeks to restore the historical and political context for the debates on the avant-garde that have raged since the 1970s.