Author: Ziarek, Krzysztof
Title: The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event
Description: Evanston [IL], Northwestern Univ. Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, vii,355 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Avant-Garde as a Critique of Experience; Rethinking the Experience of Modernity: Art, Technology & Sexual Difference: Reproducing History: Benjamin & Heidegger on the Work of Art in Modernity; Contestations of the Everyday: The Avant-Garde, Technology, &the Critique of Aesthetics; Sexuate Experience: Irigaray & the Poetics of Sexual Difference; The Avant-Garde Moment in a Transatlantic Frame: Poetics, Sexuality, & Revolution: Gertrude Stein's Poetics of the Event: Avant-Garde, the Ordinary & the Sexual Difference; History & Revolution: Khlebnikov's Futurist Revision of Modern Rationality in Zangezi; From Avant-Garde to Language Poets: How to Write the Everyday in Eastern Europe:Miron Bialoszewski's "Minor" Poetry; "A Sounding of Uncertainty": Susan Howe's Poetic Gendering of History; Beyond the Negative: An Afterword on the Avant-Garde.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Avant-Garde, Modernity, Modernist, Modernism Critical, Literature Irigaray, Poetry Poetics, Futurist Movement, Khlednikov Theory