The theory of the avant-garde -- The poet as seer: Rimbaud -- The poets of time: Apollinaire and the Italian futurists -- Negation, scandal, and purification: the Dada movements -- The revolutionary unconscious: surrealism -- The avant-garde and political revolution: Mayakovsky and Russian futurism -- Literature, politics, and the critical spirit: Brecht -- Postmodernism and the neo-avant-garde.
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