Democracy, law and the modernist avant-gardes: writing in the state of exception
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Main Author: Bru, Sascha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Taking writing to exception : by way of introduction -- The trauma of literature : a promenade through the archive on the avant-garde and politics -- The party and the book : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, futurism and amateur democracy -- The paper state : Paul van Ostaijen, expressionism and constitutional heterotopia -- The secret politician : Richard Huelsenbeck, Dadaism and the redemption of literature -- The law of literature : by way of conclusion
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 256 p.)
ISBN:074863925X
0748641769
9780748641765

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