Nazi Germany’s book burnings, its campaign against degenerate art, and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant-garde to the brink of extinction. This book looks at how the avant-garde…

Focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial ‘compositions’ - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. This book also considers…

Reading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this work identifies a counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. It traces a continuity of thought and practice through the…