Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes: Writing in the State of Exception

by Sascha Bru

This is the first book to look at the ties between European modernism and democracy in a cross-cultural manner. Focusing on the continental avant-gardes of the nineteen-tens and twenties, Sascha Bru's original and provocative book fundamentally revises our understanding of modernism's cultural and political history. Bru brings together a wide range of European experimental writers and provides detailed analyses of Italian futurist F.T. Marinetti,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074863925X
• ISBN13: 9780748639250
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher