The Historicity of Experience : Modernity, the Avant-garde and the Event Paperback / softback
by Krzysztof Ziarek
Part of the Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies series
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In this groundbreaking volume, Krzysztof Ziarek rethinks modern experience by bringing together philosophical critiques of modernity and avant-garde poetry.
Ziarek explores, through selective readings of avant-garde poetry, the key aspects of the radical critique of experience: technology, everydayness, event, and sexual difference.
To that extent, The Historicity of Experience is less a book about the avant-garde than a critique of experience through the avant-garde.
Ziarek reads the avant-garde in dialogue with the work of some of the major critics of modernity (Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Luce Irigaray) to show how avant-garde experiments bear critically on the issue of modern experience and its technological organization. The four poets Ziarek considers-Gertrude Stein, Velimir Khlebnikov, Miron Biaoszewski, and Susan Howe-demonstrate the broad reach of and variety of forms taken by the avant-garde revision of experience and aesthetics.
Moreover, this quartet illustrates how the main operative concepts and strategies of the avant-garde underpinned the practices of canonical writers.
A profound philosophical meditation on language, modernity, and the everyday, The Historicity of Experience offers a fundamental reconceptualization of the avant-garde in relation to experience.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2001
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- ISBN:9780810118362
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2001
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- ISBN:9780810118362
