Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary Avant-Garde from Rimbaud through Postmodernism

After introducing the theory and historical background of the avant-garde, this book examines the major figures and movements from Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Italian Futurism, through Dada and surrealism, Mayakovsky, Russian Futurism and Brecht, to the post-modernist writers Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, and Pynchon. Readership: students of twentieth-century literature.