Modernism and hegemony : a materialist critique of aesthetic agencies / Neil Larsen ; foreword by Jaime Concha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larsen, Neil.

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 71.

Theory and history of literature ; v. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art)--Controversial literature.

Modernism (Art).

Ideology.

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlvi, 125 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modernism and Hegemony was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In Modernism and Hegemony, Neil Larsen exposes the underlying political narratives of modernist aesthetic theory and practice. Unlike earlier Marxist critics, Larsen insists that modernist ideology be approached as a ""displaced politics"" and not simply as an aesthetic phenomenon. In this view, modernism is broadly ideological project comprising not only

Contents:

Contents; Foreword: From the Modernism of Adorno to the Contemporaneity of Marx; Introduction; 1. From Adorno to Marx: De-Aestheticizing the Modern; 2. Modernism, Manet, and the Maximilian: Executing Negation; 3. Juan Rulfo: Modernism as Cultural Agency; 4. Modernism as Cultura Brasileira: Eating the ""Torn Halves""; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8318-2

OCLC:

476092965