Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of. Postmodernity

Abstract

The book explores recent approaches to the modernist and avant-garde fiction and film via focusing on their intermediality comparison and on the role of expressionistic poetics as a productive type of avant-garde discourses. It attempts to offer a coherent interpretation of modernist and avant-garde tendencies based more on the reflections of their media and their textualities than on theoretical conceptualizations of movements and artistic groups.

Keywords

• Modernism
• expressionism
• avant-garde literature and film
• postmodernism