Visions of violence : German avant-gardes after fascism / Richard Langston.

Publication | Library Call Number: PT405 .L3118 2008

Series: Avant-garde & modernism studies
Avant-garde and modernism collection
AGM collection.
Avant-garde and modernism studies.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Langston, Richard, 1970-
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008
Locale: Germany
Language: English
External Link: Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

Physical Description: xvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction : visions of violence
Deaths and reconfigurations : avant-garde time after fascism
Peter Weiss and the exilic body
Nouveau Realismus : the male body and the space of history
Holocaust simulations : evoking bare life
Technologies of fascism and the poetics of silence and light
Alexander Kluge's impossible film
Phantasmagorias of normalcy: avant-gardes after unification.
ISBN: 9780810124714
0810124718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780810124660 (cloth : alk. paper)
0810124661 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-299) and index.

Introduction : visions of violence -- Deaths and reconfigurations : avant-garde time after fascism -- Peter Weiss and the exilic body -- Nouveau Realismus : the male body and the space of history -- Holocaust simulations : evoking bare life -- Technologies of fascism and the poetics of silence and light -- Alexander Kluge's impossible film -- Phantasmagorias of normalcy: avant-gardes after unification.
Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Germany.
German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Violence in art.
Fascism in literature.
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