Passion and rebellion : the expressionist heritage /
Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1988, ©1983.Edition: Morningside edDescription: xii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 0231067623
- 9780231067621
- 0231067631
- 9780231067638
- NX550.A1 P374 1988
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | NX 550 PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0001802 |
Reprint. Originally published: South Hadley, Mass. : J.F. Bergin, 1983.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 454-456) and index.
Toward a reinterpretation of expressionism -- Society and politics -- Literature and theater -- Painting -- Music and dance -- Film -- Aesthetic and social implications.
Toward a reinterpretation of expressionism -- 1. Expressionism and rebellion -- Society and politics -- 2. Expressionism and cafe culture -- 3. Anarchism, expressionism and psychoanalysis -- 4. Sublime ambition: art, politics and ethical idealism in the cultural journals of German Expressionism -- 5. Expressionist reviews and the First World War -- Literature and theater -- 6. Wedekind's Spring Awakening: the path to Expressionist drama -- 7. The unfinished legacy of early Expressionist poetry: Benn, Heym, Van Hoddis and Lichtenstein -- 8. Expressionist literature and the dream of the "new men" -- 9. Franz Kafka, Expressionism and reification -- 10. Expressionism and Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Painting -- 11. Expressionist painting and the aesthetic dimension -- 12. Kandinsky: the owl of Minerva -- 13. The dual vision of Paul Klee's symbolic language -- 14. Emil Nolde and the politics of rage -- Music and dance -- 15. Musical expressionism in Vienna -- 16. Ernst Bloch and musical expressionism -- 17. The new German dance movement -- Film -- 18. Caligari and the rise of the Expressionist film -- 19. Industry, text, and ideology in Expressionist film -- 20. The Golem (1920): an Expressionist treatment -- 21. Fritz Lang and German Expressionism: a reading of Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler -- Aesthetic and social implications -- 22. Expressionism and Marxism: towards an aesthetic of emancipation.