The Futurists, the Formalists, and the Marxist Critique
Author: Christopher Pike
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
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British Marxist Criticism
Author: Victor N. Paananen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-12
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 100052597X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Marxist Criticism provides selective but extensive annotated bibliographies, introductory essays, and important pieces of work from each of eight British critics who sought to explain literary production according to the principles of Marxism.
Deleuze and Futurism
Author: Helen Palmer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-10-23
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1472521897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an original exploration of Deleuze's dynamic philosophies of space, time and language, bringing Deleuze and futurism together for the first time. Helen Palmer investigates both the potential for creative novelty and the pitfalls of formalism within both futurist and Deleuzian linguistic practices. Through creative and rigorous analyses of Russian and Italian futurist manifestos, the 'futurist' aspects of Deleuze's language and thought are drawn out. The genre of the futurist manifesto is a literary and linguistic model which can be applied to Deleuze's work, not only at times when he writes explicitly in the style of a manifesto but also in his earlier writings such as Difference and Repetition (1968) and The Logic of Sense (1969). The way in which avant-garde manifestos often attempt to perform and demand their aims simultaneously, and the problems which arise due to this, is an operation which can be perceived in Deleuze's writing. With a particular focus on Russian zaum, the book negotiates the philosophy behind futurist 'nonsense' language and how Deleuze propounds analogous goals in The Logic of Sense. This book critically engages with Deleuze's poetics, ultimately suggesting that multiple linguistic models operate synecdochically within his philosophy.
International Futurism in Arts and Literature
Author: Günter Berghaus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-25
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 3110804220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication offers for the first time an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective on Futurism in a variety of countries and artistic media. 20 scholars discuss how the movement shaped the concept of a cultural avant-garde and how it influenced the development of modernist art and literature around the world.
Handbook of Russian Literature
Author: Victor Terras
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780300048681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
Nihilist Order
Author: Professor David Ohana
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 894
ISBN-13: 1836242018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe explosive combination of nihilist leanings together with a craving for totalitarianism was an ideal of philosophers, cultural critics, political theorists, engineers, architects and aesthetes long before it materialised in flesh and blood, not only in technology, but also in fascism, Nazism, bolshevism and radical European political movements. "The Nihilist Order", originally published in three hardcover volumes and now published in a consolidated paperback edition with an encompassing new Introduction, inspired excellent review endorsements, both amongst the academic and public spheres -- and has been heralded as a great achievement in European intellectual and cultural history.
Reference Guide to Russian Literature
Author: Neil Cornwell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 1020
ISBN-13: 1134260776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Film and Reform
Author: Ian Aitken
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-13
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1317929179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most influential of British film theorists. This major assessment of Grierson and the documentary film movement examines the intellectual and aesthetic influences on his work, focusing on the material he produced in the inter-war years and comparing the idealistic strain of Grierson’s social commentary with other social reformists such as the Next Five Years Group and writers like Orwell and Priestley. Underlining the link between film and reform, the book clarifies the meaning and significance of Grierson’s ideas and the historical role of the documentary film movement. Originally published in 1990.
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism
Author: Jacques Khalip
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0823271056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation, which puts both “contemporary” and “romanticism” in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions by an international roster of distinguished scholars working in and out of romanticism—from deconstruction to new historicism, from queer theory to postcolonial studies, from visual culture to biopolitics—this volume makes good on a central tenet of Benjamin’s conception of history: These critics “grasp the constellation” into which our “own era has formed with a definite earlier one.” Each of these essays approaches romanticism as a decisive and unexpired thought experiment that makes demands on and poses questions for our own time: What is the unlived of a contemporary romanticism? What has romanticism’s singular untimeliness bequeathed to futurity? What is romanticism’s contemporary “redemption value” for painting and politics, philosophy and film?
The Constructivist Moment
Author: Barrett Watten
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 081956978X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the American Comparative Literature Association's Rene Wellek Prize (2004) As one of the founding poets and editors of the Language School of poetry and one of its central theorists, Barrett Watten has consistently challenged the boundaries of literature and art. In The Constructivist Moment, he offers a series of theoretically informed and textually sensitive readings that advance a revisionist account of the avant-garde through the methodologies of cultural studies. His major topics include American modernist and postmodern poetics, Soviet constructivist and post-Soviet literature and art, Fordism and Detroit techno—each proposed as exemplary of the social construction of aesthetic and cultural forms. His book is a full-scale attempt to place the linguistic turn of critical theory and the self-reflexive foregrounding of language by the avant-garde since the Russian Formalists in relation to the cultural politics of postcolonial studies, feminism, and race theory. As such, it will provide a crucial revisionist perspective within modernist and avant-garde studies.
