Visions of violence
Subtitle: German avant-gardes after fascism
By: Richard Langston.
Series: Avant-garde & modernism studies; Avant-garde and modernism studies
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780810124714; 9780810124660
Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Germany; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Violence in art; Fascism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Visions of violence; title: Deaths and reconfigurations: avant-garde time after fascism; title: Peter Weiss and the exilic body; title: Nouveau Realismus: the male body and the space of history; title: Holocaust simulations: evoking bare life; title: Technologies of fascism and the poetics of silence and light; title: Alexander Kluge's impossible film; title: Phantasmagorias of normalcy: avant-gardes after unification.