The British avant-garde : the theory and politics of tradition

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The British avant-garde : the theory and politics of tradition

Josephine M. Guy

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991

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注記

Bibliography: p. 157-169

Includes index

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内容説明

This book offers a new theory of avant-gardism based on recent developments in the philosophy of intellectual history. The first section examines - on both theoretical and methodological grounds - current theories of avant-gardism, focusing on the work of Renato Poggioli and Peter Burger. In their place, an alternative theory is outlined which attempts to establish the intellectual conditions which make avant-garde activities possible, based on the claim that avant-garde politics are culturally and historically specific. This theory is used to establish the conditions for avant-garde activity in late 19th-century Britain: particularly, the intellectual changes which took place in political economy, historiography and sociology - changes which, by problematizing concepts of history and society, both made British avant-garde activity possible and determined the forms it took. The second section of the book examines the subversive politics, and hence, avant-gardism, in the work of Walter Pater, William Morris and Oscar Wilde, In this section, the focus is placed on the connections between literary and artistic practices and intellectual culture.

目次

  • Part 1 Theory: preliminaries
  • some problems with defining avant-gardism
  • the conditions for avant-garde activity in 19th-century Britain. Part 2 Politics: the politics of obscurity - theorizing tradition
  • Walter Pater - the rehabilitation of tradition
  • William Morris - tradition and revolution
  • Oscar Wilde - "traditional iconoclast".

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA17171114
  • ISBN
    • 0745007767
  • LCCN
    92161248
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York ; London
  • ページ数/冊数
    vii, 176 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
  • 分類
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