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""One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo..."" -Village Voice Literary Supplement ""...his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms."" -American Literary History ""...challenging and astute."" -World Literature Today ""Huyssen's level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critical voices brings welcome clarification to today's murky haze of cultural discussion and proves definitively that commentary from the tradition of the German Left has an indispensable role to play in contemporary criticism."" -The German Quarterly ""...we will certainly have, after reading this book, a deeper understanding of the forces that have led up to the present and of the possibilities still open to us."" -Critical Texts ""...a rich, multifaceted study."" -The Year's Work in English Studies Huyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity-the historical avant-garde.

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Author:   Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University)
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9780253203991

ISBN 10:   0253203996
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   22 February 1987
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: The Vanishing Other: Mass Culture 1. The HIdden Dialectic: Avantgarde-Technology-Mass Culture 2. Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner 3. Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other Part Two: Texts and Contexts 4. The Vamp and the Machine: Fritz Lang's Metropolis 5. Producing Revolution: Heiner Muller's Mauser as Learning Play 6. The Politics of Indentification: Holocaust and West German Drama 7. Memory, Myth, and the Dream of Reason: Peter Weiss's Die Asthetik des Widerstands Part Three: Toward the Postmodern 8. The Cultural Politics of Pop 9. The Search for Tradition: Avantgarde and Postmodernism in the 1970s 10. Mapping the Postmodern Notes

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