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	Theorising the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity By: Murphy, Richard; Cascardi, Anthony; Macksey, Richard Published By: Cambridge University Press PDF for Digital Editions Price: $24.00 Available to read online in eb20 (what's this?) PDF for Digital Editions	EBOOK OPTIONS ADD TO CART ADD TO WISHLIST TELL A FRIEND RECEIVE ALERTS
	Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Combining film and literature, this project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity.

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3 Counter-discourses of the avant-garde: Jameson, Bakhtin and the problem of realism	74	141	$10.43
4 The poetics of hysteria: expressionist drama and the melodramatic imagination	142	179	$5.83
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