... to formulate a functional-institutional theory of the avant-garde; Albrecht Wellmer, who brings Jürgen Habermas’s reconstruction of Frankfurt School theory to bear on a topic important to Adorno, the significance of modernist and contemporary music; and the filmmaker, writer, and theorist Alexander Kluge, who...

...This chapter discusses Hugh MacDiarmid, who revived the Scots language as a modern and avant-garde medium. It takes note of his struggles with the old traditions of Scotland that appeared to be keeping the country from entering the modern world, and shows that, in the literary context, the Scots...

...Un Chien andalou is probably the best-known film of the European avant-garde. As so many accounts of it point out, it is shocking now as it was some eighty years ago, principally due to the apparent slitting of a woman's eye in its first minutes. This chapter reviews contemporary...

... and Susan Langer’s similarly transcorporeal notion of a “continuum of feeling,” the chapter explores forms of dance in which affect is grounded in the material gestures of the body and located in the tensions required to create these abstract forms. Feeling was not suppressed in avant-garde dance but rather...

...This chapter focuses on the 1930s New Sensationist (xinganjuepai) writers Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying, whose works are shown in later chapters to have influenced the subsequent literary scene. They are seen here as an avant-garde group that wrote works in opposition to the overall...

...This anthology called Modernism in Literature is Paul de Man's reader on twentieth-century literary theory and suggests how closely entwined he considered the theoretical avant garde and literary modernism. The project is conceived as background reading for courses in nineteenth...

... a redemptive reading or apologetics, this chapter explores the layers of Findlay’s amoral film, finding in it surprising resonances with not only Findlay’s own earlier work but also feminist and avant-garde cinema. Findlay Roberta Grant Shauna Shauna Erhlich Jake Friedman David F Matinee Idol 1984 Sear...

... promoting the ‘democratic’ expansion of participation, representation and liberated artistic innovation that is imagined for the future or as an example of the aberrant practices of an avant-garde figured as a degenerate strand of literary production. avant garde Fernhurst Stein Matisse Henri Paris...

...In this chapter Walldén explores Angelidi’s feminist work through an avant-garde practice of uncanniness, exemplified by the film Topos (1988). It reveals a very particular side of feminist aesthetics connected to the practice of the avantgarde and secondly, it relates...

...-realism localist avant-garde Fittingly for a book published on New Year’s Eve, 1931, Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine (RFBBM) is a modernist text caught in a transitional period. As the Great Depression deepened, the winter of 1931–2 proved to be a pivotal moment for transatlantic...

...This chapter explores the potentials of an interdisciplinary dialogue between neo-avant-garde research in literary and art history in three stages. The point of departure is a re-reading of the history of avant-garde theory, which recalls the specific German and literary-historical context...

...This chapter discusses the resurgence of avant-garde aesthetics in El Gran Vidrio (The Large Glass) by the Mexican-Peruvian author Mario Bellatin. Taking as its departure point this unsettling trio of apparently autobiographical stories published in 2007, the essay...

...Referencing Laura Mulvey, Andre Bazin and Andrew Sarris, this chapter discusses auteur characteristics and explores how Kelly Reichardt is contributing to a definition of feminist avant-garde cinema through her production methods, content, and form. Reichardt offers a 21^st century...

...This chapter describes the intellectual field of the nineteenth century. The first section discusses the sensibility of the literary intellectuals, and then examines Pierre Bourdieu's concept of intellectual autonomy. It is followed by a section on William Wordsworth's role in romantic avant-garde...

...The chapter starts by countering the view that Scottish cinema is under-developed, noting recent diversity, and films which challenge dominant cinematic forms. The chapter proceeds to discuss a form of Scottish art cinema, and the avant-garde element represented by film-maker Margaret Tait...

...This chapter offers a detailed reconstruction of the performance of a piece of avant-garde drama to highlights the prominent role of women in theatrical culture at the time, as both dramatists and actresses, and the professional opportunities that were then opening for them. It also shows...

..., the book animates a trans-media assemblage that grew out of a convergence of three interconnected themes: the role played by the discipline of anthropology in shaping the contours of Mexican modernity and its avant-garde media arts and visual culture; the lessons learned from the tradition of experimental...

..., radicals and others. modernist art experimental writing expatriate avant-garde modernism This alphabetical list of the original contributors to this volume supplements the introduction to this new edition, and reading both will give a fuller illustration of the individual contributors...

... to the more established avant-garde and the ways in which her work deserves placement in the avant-garde, it primarily initiates a conversation between Wishman and Schneemann’s work by analyzing the ways they both centralize female bodies in their films and demonstrate the complexities of depicting female...