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Selections from the Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Series
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Contemporary Poetics
Louis Armand
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Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study--a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theory, philosophy, and even cybernetics--this volume gathers a body of critical writings that, taken together, broadly delineate a possible poetics of the contemporary. In these essays, the most interest...
November 2007
Northwestern
6 x 9 / 432 pp.
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ISBN 0-8101-2360-6 /
$29.95
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Style and Time
Essays on the Politics of Appearance
Andrew Benjamin
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Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity--the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its discontinuity with the past. Exposing the limitations of such an understanding, this book offers a very different approach: here, modernity is the site that poses the question of how we are to continue when every atte...
"This is a subtle and rigorous, multi-angled approach to what the author . . . calls the problems of modernity." --German Quarterly Book Reviews
April 2006
Northwestern
6 x 9 / 176 pp.
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ISBN 0-8101-2334-7 /
$23.95
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Guy Davenport
Postmodernism and After
Andre Furlani
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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 ...
"Furlani's scholarship is overall remarkable. His is a notable contribution to the key, fast expanding field of postmodern studies and contemporary humanities broadly; in particular it renders justice to a largely under-read yet very important, representative writer." -Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
July 2007
Northwestern
6 x 9 / 296 pp.
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ISBN 0-8101-2389-4 /
$27.95
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Visions of Violence
German Avant-Gardes After Fascism
Richard Langston
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Nazi Germany's book burnings, its campaign against "degenerate art," and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant garde to the brink of extinction. How the avant-garde came back, finding a new purpose in the wake of the war, is the subject of Visions of Violence.
An extreme faction of aesthetic modernity intent on bulldozi...
December 2007
Northwestern
6 x 9 / 344 pp.
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ISBN 0-8101-2471-8 /
$34.95
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Poetics of Indeterminacy, The
Rimbaud to Cage
Marjorie Perloff
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In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central tradition which cannot properly be situated within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition dominating the early twentieth century.
"Ms. Perloff's case is seductively and persuasively argued; her writing is by turns luminous, impassioned, and instructive. The essays on Rimbaud and John Ashbery are among my favorites in this highly intriguing . . . book." --Antioch Review
December 1999
Northwestern
6 x 9 / 346 pp.
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ISBN 0-8101-1764-9 /
$21.00
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Void of Ethics, The
Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity
Patrizia McBride
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"McBride has done an admirable job of connecting a number of disparate elements of Musil's work into a meaningful version of its coherence." —symploke
April 2006
Northwestern
6 x 9 / 248 pp.
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ISBN 0-8101-2109-3 /
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