The European Avant-garde : 1900-1940 Paperback / softback
by Andrew J. (Churchill College, Cambridge) Webber
Part of the Cultural History of Literature series
Paperback / softback
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This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday.
It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian. Andrew Webber presents striking examples to illustrate a time of unprecedented experiment and energetic performance in all aspects of culture.
Readings of some of the most important and characteristic avant-garde texts, pictures and films are set against some of the key developments of the period: advances in technology and psychology; the rise of radical politics; the cultural ferment of the modern metropolis; and the upheaval in issues of gender and sexuality.
The author's mediation between a variety of cultural forms, combining political and psychoanalytical modes of understanding, evokes the richness of the age in a manner that students will find both illuminating and provocative. This volume will be an excellent textbook for courses on the avant-garde in departments of comparative cultural studies, literature and film studies.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:15/07/2004
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- ISBN:9780745627052
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:15/07/2004
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- ISBN:9780745627052