Modernism/postmodernismPeter Brooker The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these additionally alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His excellent Introduction and detailed headnotes for each section and essay provide an indispensable guide to interpreting the many different opinions, and prove to be valuable contributions in their own right. |
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... disruption , and uncontainable mass societies . Neither was desirable and yet the modernist alternative , however ingrained , went unheeded . America was adrift and at risk.17 This perplexed and anxious liberal nostalgia had appeared ...
... disruption , and uncontainable mass societies . Neither was desirable and yet the modernist alternative , however ingrained , went unheeded . America was adrift and at risk.17 This perplexed and anxious liberal nostalgia had appeared ...
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... disruption , the deferral rather than the affirmation or denial of meaning . As Derrida writes ' the passage beyond philosophy does not consist in turning the page of philosophy ... but in continuing to read philosophers in a certain ...
... disruption , the deferral rather than the affirmation or denial of meaning . As Derrida writes ' the passage beyond philosophy does not consist in turning the page of philosophy ... but in continuing to read philosophers in a certain ...
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... disruption and fragmen- tation have become a cultural habit , argues that they themselves require the corrective jolt of realism - ' a more totalising way of viewing phenom- ena ' ( Aesthetics and Politics , 1977 , p . 211 ) . The ...
... disruption and fragmen- tation have become a cultural habit , argues that they themselves require the corrective jolt of realism - ' a more totalising way of viewing phenom- ena ' ( Aesthetics and Politics , 1977 , p . 211 ) . The ...
Contents
Reconstructions | 1 |
Modernist Positions | 37 |
WALTER BENJAMIN from The Work of Art in the Age | 45 |
Copyright | |
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