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Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde
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Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), appears in European literature and culture like a ghostly figure whose prolific and monstrous works haunt not only nineteen...
Avant-Gardists and the Lure of Pop Music
Avant-Gardists and the Lure of Pop Music
This chapter provides methods and models for thinking about avant-garde and experimental films and videos that incorporate popular music. It sketches the history of intersections b...
Normalizing the Marquis de Sade
Normalizing the Marquis de Sade
This chapter recognizes Iwan Bloch as the first sexual theorist since Ulrichs to rebuke sexual degeneration as a viable scientific hypothesis. Bloch accomplished this deconstructio...
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45
Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-gard...
Invisible Terrain
Invisible Terrain
In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...
Another Future
Another Future
Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight, Alan Gilbert, Arts and society, 2005, Wesleyan University Press...