Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity
- ISBN-10
- 0521648696
- ISBN-13
- 9780521648691
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 325
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-04-22
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Richard John Murphy
Description
Challenges conventional approaches to the avant-garde through a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary take on postmodernism.
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