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Visions of violence : German avant-gardes after fascism / Richard Langston.

Author/creator Langston, Richard, 1970-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoEvanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Germany.
German literature--20th century --History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Violence in art.
Fascism in literature.
Series Avant-garde & modernism studies
Avant-garde and modernism studies. ^A379673
Contents Introduction: Visions of violence -- Deaths and reconfigurations: avant-garde time after fascism -- Peter Weiss and the exilic body -- Nouveau Realismus: the male body and the space of history -- Holocaust simulations: evoking bare life -- Technologies of fascism and the poetics of silence and light -- Alexander Kluge's impossible film -- Phantasmagorias of normalcy: avant-gardes after unification.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-299) and index.
LCCN 2007028620
ISBN9780810124714 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0810124718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780810124660 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0810124661 (cloth : alk. paper)

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