The historicity of experience : modernity, the avant-garde, and the event

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    • Ziarek, Krzysztof

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The historicity of experience : modernity, the avant-garde, and the event

Krzysztof Ziarek

(Avant-garde and modernism studies)

Northwestern University Press, 2001

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 343-351

Includes index

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Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780810118355

Description

In this groundbreaking volume, Krzysztof Ziarek rethinks modern experience by bringing together philosophical critiques of modernity and avant-garde poetry.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Avant-Garde as a Critique of Experience Part One. Rethinking the Experience of Modernity: Art, Technology, and Sexual Difference 1. Reproducing History: Benjamin and Heidegger on the Work of Art in Modernity 2. Contestations of the Everyday: The Avant-Garde, Technology and the Critique of Aesthetics 3. Sexuate Experience: Irigaray and the Poetics of Sexual Difference Part Two. The Avant-Garde Moment in a Transatlantic Frame: Poetics, Sexuality, and Revolution 4. Gertrude Stein's Poetics of the Event: Avant-Garde, the Ordinary, and Sexual Difference 5. History and Revolution: Khlebnikov's Futurist Revision of Modern Rationality in Zangezi Part Three. From the Avant-Garde to Language Poets 6. How to Write the Everyday in Eastern Europe: Miron Bialoszewski's "Minor" Poetry 7. "A Sounding of Uncertainty": Susan Howe's Poetic Gendering of History Beyond the Negative: An Afterword on the Avant-Garde Notes Bibliography Index
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780810118362

Description

This work asserts the critical importance of the avant-garde for modern art and for current debates about the end of modernity. The author rethinks modern experience by gathering philosophical critiques of modernity and avant-garde poetry.

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